linux-kernel - Re: [patch] build error: allnoconfig fails on mincore/swapper

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:49:09 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, tony.luck@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] build error: allnoconfig fails on mincore/swapper_space


> > > > oops.  CONFIG_SWAP=n,  I assume?
> 
> Sorry for being so slow to respond on this.  Yes, I'm inclined to
> your ifdeffery fix - one can go cleverer, but I'd say it's the
> appropriate fix now.
> 
> But, please change your "present = 0;" to "present = 1;" -
> if CONFIG_SWAP isn't on, it has to be a migration entry,
> which always counts as present.
> 
> > 
> > BUT:  what is <present> used for in that loop?  or is it used?
> 
> Well spotted!  Something has gone missing: there needs to be a
> 			vec[i] = present;
> at the bottom of that loop.


From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>

Don't check for pte swap entries when CONFIG_SWAP=n.
And save 'present' in the vec array.

mm/built-in.o: In function `sys_mincore':
(.text+0xe584): undefined reference to `swapper_space'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
---
 mm/mincore.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.20-git9.orig/mm/mincore.c
+++ linux-2.6.20-git9/mm/mincore.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ static long do_mincore(unsigned long add
 			present = mincore_page(vma->vm_file->f_mapping, pgoff);
 
 		} else { /* pte is a swap entry */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
 			swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
 			if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
 				/* migration entries are always uptodate */
@@ -119,7 +120,11 @@ static long do_mincore(unsigned long add
 				pgoff = entry.val;
 				present = mincore_page(&swapper_space, pgoff);
 			}
+#else
+			present = 1;
+#endif
 		}
+		vec[i] = present;
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep-1, ptl);
 
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