Re: 4.9.80 compile failure with X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION=n due to 9a0be5af

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 12:31:13 EST


On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 17:04 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:43:25AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Commit 9a0be5af added a reference to vsyscall_pgprot in
> > arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c but that is undefined if X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION=n
> > which on an embedded system where you know how all your software is
> > compiled is quite likely.
> >
> > Of course the condition is always false with that config so the code
> > will never be run, but the compiler is unhappy.
>
> What is the compiler error?ÂÂI have not had any reports of this with all
> of the varied builds that we currently run on the stable trees.

You already applied a fix for this ("kaiser: fix compile error without
vsyscall").

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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