linux-kernel - [next:akpm 129/309] net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:30:58 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [next:akpm 129/309] net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer
 element is not constant

Hi Mel,

To be frank, I don't quite understand this build failure..

tree:   next/akpm akpm
head:   37e2ad4953983527f7bdb6831bf478eedcc84082
commit: 799dc3a908b1df8b766c35aefc24c1b5356aa051 [129/309] netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
config: parisc-defconfig (attached as .config)

All related error/warning messages:

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

vim +274 net/core/sock.c
   271	int sysctl_optmem_max __read_mostly = sizeof(unsigned long)*(2*UIO_MAXIOV+512);
   272	EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_optmem_max);
   273	
 > 274	struct static_key memalloc_socks = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
   275	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memalloc_socks);
   276	
   277	/**

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0-DAY kernel build testing backend         Open Source Technology Centre
Fengguang Wu <wfg@...ux.intel.com>                     Intel Corporation

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