linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: 1ea0704e (ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction) breaks no-mmu

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Message-ID: <486CF610.7000905@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:53:52 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: 1ea0704e (ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction)
 breaks no-mmu

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the functions added to asm-generic/pgtable.h are only used by
> mm/mprotect.c (a MMU-only file), but they were not added inside of the
> CONFIG_MMU ifdef block.  since the functions rely on things inside of
> CONFIG_MMU (the lines just above in pgtable.h), we get build failure
> on all no-mmu setups:
>   CC      init/main.o
> In file included from include/asm/pgtable.h:94,
>                  from include/linux/mm.h:39,
>                  from include/asm/dma.h:39,
>                  from include/linux/bootmem.h:8,
>                  from init/main.c:27:
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function '__ptep_modify_prot_start':
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:210: error: implicit declaration of
> function 'ptep_get_and_clear'
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:210: error: incompatible types in return
> make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
> make: *** [init/main.o] Error 2
> -mike
>   

Uh, OK.  What does mprotect do on a nommu system?  Would it be 
sufficient to move the definitions of __ptep_modify_prot_start/commit 
out of a CONFIG_MMU block, or provide separate no-op versions?

    J

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