linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc2 build fails: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_call_function

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Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:55:55 +0100
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc2 build fails: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_call_function_mask'

El Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:26:13PM -0800 Linus Torvalds ha dit:

> Yeah, don't remind me - it's late. 
> 
> There was nothng in particular holding this thing up, I just basically 
> just forgot to cut a -rc2 release last week.
> 
> There's not a lot of hugely exciting stuff here. Some arch updates: MIPS, 
> arm, blackfin, x86, sparc[64], sh, s390..
> 
> Also various driver updates: libata, IDE, networking, DVB.. And some more 
> fallout from the scatter-gather changes.
> 
> Some scheduler cleanups, and also fixing the CPU usage statistics that 
> got scrogged at some point.
> 
> Nothing really earthshattering that I can recall or see. A lot of it is 
> small buglets and compiler warnings (and occasionally broken builds). The 
> shortlog is still slightly too large for the mailing list limit, so you 
> need to generate it either from the full log (posted on the normal sites) 
> or with
> 
> 	git shortlog v2.6.24-rc1..
> 
> but quite frankly, it's no Leo Tolstoy. If you have trouble falling 
> asleep, you might try to print it out and take it to bed with you: it's 
> not going to be more than just a couple of pages ("use 2nup and save a 
> tree"), but I dare you to actually get to the end. Snooze city.
> 
> It's full of such *riveting* entries like:
> 
> 	James Bottomley:
> 	      x86: voyager: fix bogus conversion to per_cpu for boot_cpu_info
> 	...
> 	Jens Axboe:
> 	      mmc: sg fallout
> 	...
> 	Joerg Roedel:
> 	      x86 gart: rename iommu.h to gart.h
> 	...
> 	Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
> 	      V4L/DVB (6390): Updates missing entries at CARDLIST.em28xx
> 	...
> 	Ralf Baechle:
> 	      [MIPS] Alchemy: Nuke homebrew setup_irq(), it's broken and unnecessary.
> 	...
> 	Yu Luming:
> 	      [IA64] fix typo in per_cpu_offset
> 	..

v2.6.24-rc2 fails to build on my box with the following error:

CC [M]  drivers/kvm/kvm_main.o
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c: In function ‘kvm_flush_remote_tlbs’:
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c:220: error: implicit declaration of function
‘smp_call_function_mask’
make[3]: *** [drivers/kvm/kvm_main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/kvm] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/kernel/linux-2.6.24-rc2'
make: *** [debian/stamp-build-kernel] Error 2

the .config file is attached

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