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

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:59:38 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree

On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:12:36 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> > I've also sent a patch that fixes the link error on ARM and that should
> > work on all other architectures too.
> 
> In case of avr32 signalfd_read() fails. Does your patch help with it as well?
> 
> P.S. Bisecting shows same culprit: 150a0b4905f1 ("aio: add support for
> async openat()")

I don't know. What is the symptom on avr32? My patch only removes the
get_user() instances on 64-bit values and replaces them with a
single copy_from_user() call.

	Arnd