linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

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Message-ID: <87lhaws3zi.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:44:41 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> writes:

> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 16:59 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> allnoconfig) failed like this:
>
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function 'pte_pgprot':
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h:104:18: error: '_PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY' undeclared (first use in this function)
>>      _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY)
>
> That's probably my fault, Andrew asked if we wanted to take it via powerpc and
> I thought "yes" but never actually replied.
>
> Andrew can you drop this one and we'll take it via powerpc?
>
> It might take a while to actually hit the powerpc tree because Aneesh is doing
> a lot of work in this area at the moment.
>
> Without knowing the code, the change logs make me think we probably also need
> to take the other two from Laurent for it to make sense. Laurent?
>

The other two patches are fixes for core soft dirty tracking code and
they are valid even without powerpc bits. So they can go via -mm tree

-aneesh

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