linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kernel compile bug in 2.6.22.6/7 {maybe more} ARM/StrongARM

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:51:56 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg.Chandler@...lsfargo.com, cpufreq@...ts.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kernel compile bug in 2.6.22.6/7 {maybe more}
	ARM/StrongARM

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:31:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:22:55 -0400 Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > OK, here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm3/broken-out/fix-x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch
 > >  > 
 > >  > So I guess what we want to do here is to revert that patch, test i386
 > >  > allnoconfig and then fix up anything which breaks.
 > > 
 > > Nothing breaks for me with make ARCH=i386 bzImage on my x86-64 box
 > > (which should be the same as a native build).
 > 
 > Was that with allnoconfig?

yeah.

 > > The functions that complain in that patch header don't seem to actually
 > > exist in mainline at all. (`init_sched_clock' and `call_r_s_f')
 > > Did this patch perhaps jump the gun, and these are -mm only ?
 > 
 > Could be that this patch fixed version 17 of sched-clock-share and we ended
 > up merging verion 56.  It was awful.

heh.

I think just reverting that change for .23 makes sense. It doesn't
seem that anything breaks by not having it there, and we know it
definitly breaks arm at least.

	Dave

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