linux-kernel - Re: 3.8-rc1 build failure with MIPS/SPARSEMEM

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Message-ID: <20121230103850.GA5424@otc-wbsnb-06>
Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:38:50 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Subject: Re: 3.8-rc1 build failure with MIPS/SPARSEMEM

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 02:16:07PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:34:35AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On MIPS if SPARSEMEM is enabled we've got this:
> > 
> > In file included from /home/kas/git/public/linux/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h:552,
> >                  from include/linux/mm.h:44,
> >                  from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function ‘my_zero_pfn’:
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: error: implicit declaration of function ‘page_to_section’
> > In file included from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
> > include/linux/mm.h: At top level:
> > include/linux/mm.h:738: error: conflicting types for ‘page_to_section’
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: note: previous implicit declaration of ‘page_to_section’ was here
> > 
> > Due header files inter-dependencies, the only way I see to fix it is
> > convert my_zero_pfn() for __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE to macros.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>
> 
> Thanks, this works.
> 
> Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>

Andrew, could you take the patch?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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