linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 09:57:40 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 - s390 vs. md

On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:19:14 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/

Doesn't build on s390 when selecting the md menu:

drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x438ae): In function `async_xor':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_page'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x43aac): In function `async_xor':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_page'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x43d2e): In function `async_xor_zero_sum':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_page'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x43f50): In function `async_memcpy':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_page'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x43f90): In function `async_memcpy':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_page'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4423e): more undefined references to
`dma_map_page' follow

This is caused by the following in drivers/md/Kconfig:

menuconfig MD
        bool "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"
        depends on BLOCK
        select ASYNC_TX_DMA
        help
          Support multiple physical spindles through a single logical device.
          Required for RAID and logical volume management.

ASYNC_TX_DMA is defined in drivers/dma/Kconfig, which has

menu "DMA Engine support"
        depends on !S390

but unfortunately ASYNC_TX_DMA depends neither on the menu nor
on !S390. (I think it was just an unknown symbol on s390 before
Martin's Kconfig rework, so I could build older -mm kernels.)

Currently, the only md stuff depending on ASYNC_TX_DMA is MD_RAID456
(which means it doesn't work on s390 anymore, which is bad enough).
With the select statement, no md stuff can be build on s390 at all (and
I really don't see why ASYNC_TX_DMA should be forced upon all md
users)...
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/