linux-kernel - Re: Pageflags: Standardize comment inclusion in asm-offsets.h and fix MIPS

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804141456410.8740@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: Pageflags: Standardize comment inclusion in asm-offsets.h and
 fix MIPS

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> afaict this change is not dependent upon the other page-flags changes and
> can and should be merged ahead of the page-flags patches to preserve mips
> bisectability, yes?

It could be merged before yes. There may be a conflict with the earlier 
kbuild fixes though. Sam?

> Mips and sparc64 are hopefully now mended.  powerpc allmodconfig is still
> unwell:
> 
>   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
>                  from include/linux/slab.h:14,
>                  from include/linux/percpu.h:5,
>                  from include/asm/time.h:18,
>                  from include/asm/cputime.h:26,
>                  from include/linux/sched.h:67,
>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:17:
> include/linux/mmzone.h:830:2: error: #error Allocator MAX_ORDER exceeds SECTION_SIZE

Cannot figure out what this has to do with page flags. AFACIT the powerpc 
config is borked because section size is set too low for 64K pages.



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