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Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:58:46 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: inux-next: Tree for July 1

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:53:06 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> s390 allmodconfig:
> 
> In file included from include/asm/pgtable.h:1087,
>                  from include/linux/mm.h:39,
>                  from arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c:8:
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function '__ptep_modify_prot_start':
> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:209: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

OK, this wasn't very pretty:

--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h~s390-build-fixes
+++ a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -197,17 +197,13 @@ static inline int pmd_none_or_clear_bad(
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
-static inline pte_t __ptep_modify_prot_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
-					     unsigned long addr,
-					     pte_t *ptep)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Get the current pte state, but zero it out to make it
-	 * non-present, preventing the hardware from asynchronously
-	 * updating it.
-	 */
-	return ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
-}
+/*
+ * Get the current pte state, but zero it out to make it
+ * non-present, preventing the hardware from asynchronously
+ * updating it.
+ */
+#define __ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, ptep)	\
+	ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep)
 
 static inline void __ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm,
 					     unsigned long addr,
@@ -235,12 +231,8 @@ static inline void __ptep_modify_prot_co
  * queue the update to be done at some later time.  The update must be
  * actually committed before the pte lock is released, however.
  */
-static inline pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
-					   unsigned long addr,
-					   pte_t *ptep)
-{
-	return __ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, ptep);
-}
+#define ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, ptep)		\
+	__ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, ptep)
 
 /*
  * Commit an update to a pte, leaving any hardware-controlled bits in
_

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