linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] unicore32: Fix build error

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Message-ID: <8d3a7b95-7a1d-1641-76dc-01db30497bd0@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:51:45 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>
Cc:     Qin Rui <qinrui@....edu.cn>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] unicore32: Fix build error

On 10/18/2016 12:24 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Since the oldabi syscall interface was first introduced, the infrastructure
> changed and the patch no longer compiles. See commit f56141e3e2d9a ("all
> arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct") for details.
>
> Fixes: 1ace5d1e3d4b4 ("unicore32-oldabi: add oldabi syscall interface")
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> ---
> Should be merged with the commit introducing the problem if possible.
>

Additional comment: Even with this patch applied, the image does not boot with
qemu in -next. Here is a partial log:

...
Memory: 441012K/524288K available (1923K kernel code, 76K rwdata, 312K rodata, 2212K init, 175K bss, 83276K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)^M
Virtual kernel memory layout:^M
     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)^M
     vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff000000   ( 488 MB)^M
     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000   ( 512 MB)^M
     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000   (  16 MB)^M
       .init : 0xc0408000 - 0xc0631000   (2212 kB)^M
       .text : 0xc0631000 - 0xc0811e20   (1924 kB)^M
       .data : 0xc0811e20 - 0xc0873160   ( 389 kB)^M
------------[ cut here ]------------^M
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/percpu.c:996 pcpu_alloc+0x528/0x5d4^M

The code then loops forever repeating this warning and the associated traceback.

Guenter

>  arch/unicore32/kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/unicore32/kernel/signal.c b/arch/unicore32/kernel/signal.c
> index 78a66491b108..be75ef8c1e0c 100644
> --- a/arch/unicore32/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/unicore32/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ asmlinkage int __sys_sigreturn(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	struct sigframe __user *frame;
>
>  	/* Always make any pending restarted system calls return -EINTR */
> -	current_thread_info()->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
> +	current->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
>
>  	/*
>  	 * Since we stacked the signal on a 64-bit boundary,
>