Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: fix undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages' on PPC builds

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed Jan 21 2015 - 20:45:04 EST


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:57:59PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2015-01-21 9:07 GMT+09:00 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:01:50 -0800 josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:02:00PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> >> > It's possible to configure DEBUG_PAGEALLOC without PAGE_POISONING on
> >> > ppc. Fix building the generic kernel_map_pages() implementation in
> >> > this case:
> >> >
> >> > LD init/built-in.o
> >> > mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
> >> > mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> >> > mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
> >> > mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> >> > mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
> >> > mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> >> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> kernel_map_pages() is static inline function since commit 031bc5743f15
> ("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable").
>
> But there is old declaration in 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h'.
> Removing it or changing s/kernel_map_pages/__kernel_map_pages/ in this
> header file or something can fix this problem?
>
> The architecture which has ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> including PPC should not build mm/debug-pagealloc.o

Yes, architecture with ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC should not build
mm/debug-pagealloc.o. I attach the patch to remove old declaration.
I hope it will fix Kim's problem.

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