linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/23] userfaultfd: avoid mmap_sem read recursion in mcopy

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Message-Id: <20150522141830.f969b285ad072a23bb28f196@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 14:18:30 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	qemu-devel@...gnu.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@...il.com>,
	zhang.zhanghailiang@...wei.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/23] userfaultfd: avoid mmap_sem read recursion in
 mcopy_atomic


There's a more serious failure with i386 allmodconfig:

fs/userfaultfd.c:145:2: note: in expansion of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
  BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct uffd_msg) != 32);

I'm surprised the feature is even reachable on i386 builds?
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