Message-ID: <8b5ecd46-65a4-aec4-9eb0-a38a8dfba0ba@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:31:49 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@....com>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: disable compiling temporarile

Hi Xiang,

On 2018/8/2 18:11, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> 
> On 2018/8/2 17:39, Chao Yu wrote:
>> As Stephen Rothwell reported:
>>
>> "After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
>> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c: In function 'erofs_read_super':
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:343:17: error: 'MS_RDONLY' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'IS_RDONLY'?
>>   sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY | MS_NOATIME;
>>                  ^~~~~~~~~
>>                  IS_RDONLY
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:343:17: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:343:29: error: 'MS_NOATIME' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'S_NOATIME'?
>>   sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY | MS_NOATIME;
>>                              ^~~~~~~~~~
>>                              S_NOATIME
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c: In function 'erofs_mount':
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:501:10: warning: passing argument 5 of 'mount_bdev' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>>    &priv, erofs_fill_super);
>>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> In file included from include/linux/buffer_head.h:12:0,
>>                  from drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:14:
>> include/linux/fs.h:2151:23: note: expected 'size_t {aka long unsigned int}' but argument is of type 'int (*)(struct super_block *, void *, int)'
>>  extern struct dentry *mount_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
>>                        ^~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:500:9: error: too few arguments to function 'mount_bdev'
>>   return mount_bdev(fs_type, flags, dev_name,
>>          ^~~~~~~~~~
>> In file included from include/linux/buffer_head.h:12:0,
>>                  from drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:14:
>> include/linux/fs.h:2151:23: note: declared here
>>  extern struct dentry *mount_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
>>                        ^~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c: At top level:
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:518:20: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>>   .mount          = erofs_mount,
>>                     ^~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:518:20: note: (near initialization for 'erofs_fs_type.mount')
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c: In function 'erofs_remount':
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:630:12: error: 'MS_RDONLY' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'IS_RDONLY'?
>>   *flags |= MS_RDONLY;
>>             ^~~~~~~~~
>>             IS_RDONLY
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c: At top level:
>> drivers/staging/erofs/super.c:640:16: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>>   .remount_fs = erofs_remount,
>>                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Caused by various commits creating erofs in the staging tree interacting
>> with various commits redoing the mount infrastructure in the vfs tree.
>>
>> I have disabed CONFIG_EROFS_FS for now:"
>>
>> The reason of compiling error is:
>>
>> Since -next collects and merges developing patches including common vfs
>> stuff from multi-trees, but those patches didn't cover erofs, such as:
>>
>> ('vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled")
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=109b45090d7d3ce2797bb1ef7f70eead5bfe0ff3
>>
>> ("vfs: Require specification of size of mount data for internal mounts")
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=0a191e4505a4f255e6513b49426213da69bf0e80
>>
>> Above vfs related patches has not been merged in staging tree, if we
>> submit those erofs patches to staging mailing list and after including
>> them in staging-{test,nexts} tree, it can easily cause compiling error.
>>
>> We worked out some patches to adjust those vfs change, but now we just
>> submit them to -next tree temporarily to avoid compiling error.
>>
>> For potentail conflict in between erofs and vfs changes in incoming
>> merge window, Stephen suggested that we can disable CONFIG_EROFS_FS
>> temporarily to pass merge window, and after that we can do restore by
>> reenabling CONFIG_EROFS_FS and applying those fixing patches. Also
>> Greg confirmed this solution.
>>
>> So, let's disable compiling erofs for a while.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/erofs/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/erofs/Kconfig
>> index 663b755bf2fb..96f614934df1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/Kconfig
>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>>  
>>  config EROFS_FS
>>  	tristate "EROFS filesystem support"
>> -	depends on BLOCK
>> +	depends on BROKEN
> 
> How about remaining "depends on BLOCK" but just adding "depends on BROKEN"?

That's right, let me update it in v3, sorry about the mistake.

Thanks,

> 
> Thanks
> Gao Xiang
>>  	help
>>  	  EROFS(Enhanced Read-Only File System) is a lightweight
>>  	  read-only file system with modern designs (eg. page-sized
> 

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