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Message-ID: <664cc88d-18a5-18c4-5bce-4d4352d15f4f@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2017 06:43:41 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the block tree

On 06/28/2017 02:04 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
> 
> fs/fcntl.o: In function `do_fcntl': 
> fcntl.c:(.text+0x6d4): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
> fcntl.c:(.text+0x730): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
> 
> Probably caused by commit
> 
>   c75b1d9421f8 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints")
> 
> On powerpc (at least) you cannot use get_user() to fetch anything larger
> than "unsigned long" i.e. 32 bits on 32 bit powerpc.
> 
> This has been discussed before (and, I think, a fix attempted).

Gah, thanks for letting me know. I'll test your patch and queue it
up to fix this issue.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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