linux-ext4 - Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero

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Date:	Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:22:57 +0300
From:	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.fi>
To:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Cc:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero_page" undefined

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:11 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com> [2008-05-28 09:06]:
> > * Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> [2008-05-13 05:50]:
> > > I prefer to do it myself so I can apply it at the same time to the MIPS
> > > -stable branches.
> > > 
> > > I'm a little irriated that this thread seems to be only about
> > > empty_zero_page but apparently not zero_page_mask?  empty_zero_page is
> > > actualy an array of pages on MIPS and ZERO_PAGE() will pick the right one
> > > for a particular user space mapping based on the virtual address but
> > > ZERO_PAGE() also references zero_page_mask.  So I sense more brokenness
> > > here.
> > 
> > Just as a reminder, this issue is still there (at least with rc4).
> 
> Still present in rc5.

It looks like the discussion related to this issue has faded out. Ralf
seemed to have some objections to using ZERO_PAGE() outside of the
context of getting a user-mapped page, but I think that ext4 driver is
still doing that.

Ralf, will it be possible to use the patch I sent earlier as a temporary
solution? Just to make sure the kernel builds?

Thanks,
Dmitri
> 

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