linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip] Fix build failure x86_default_fixup_cpu_id() with !CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2011 21:51:00 +0530
From:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>
Cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	daniel@...ascale-asia.com, mingo@...e.hu, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip] Fix build failure x86_default_fixup_cpu_id() with
 !CONFIG_SMP

* Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com> [2011-12-06 12:44:46]:

> On 12/6/2011 12:37, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> >Hi Kamalesh,
> >
> >On 12/06/2011 04:17 PM, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>tip (a4a7e7e29333) build fails, when compiled with !CONFIG_SMP.
> >>I have only build tested the patch.
> >>
> >>x86: Fix x86_default_fixup_cpu_id() build failure with !CONFIG_SMP
> >>
> >>arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function 'x86_default_fixup_cpu_id':
> >>arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:1149: error: 'struct cpuinfo_x86' has no member named 'phys_proc_id'
> >>make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.o] Error 1
> >>
> >>the code was introduced by commit 64be4c1c24. This patch
> >>introduced #ifdef to guard !SMP case.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal<kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>----
> >
> >
> >There was a similar build-fix patch by Steffen Persvold at:
> >https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/6/28
> >
> >That would solve your case too, right?
> >

Thanks for pointing out the patch.

> 
> I would hope so (I tested with !CONFIG_SMP also), albeit I used :
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> 
> and not
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> 
> 
> but I don't think you can compile with CONFIG_NUMA without having
> CONFIG_SMP  (if I read the Kconfig correctly..).
> 
> I used CONFIG_NUMA because the code-path doesn't really make sense
> on non-numa nodes.

agree, cpuinfo_x86->phys_proc_id is protected within CONFIG_SMP but the
right way is to fix using CONFIG_NUMA as explained by you in 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/6/28.

Regards,
Kamalesh.

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