linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 23

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:56:02 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 23

On 10/22/19 11:44 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 8:17 AM Shaokun Zhang
> <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com> wrote:
>> +Cc: Mark Salyzyn
>>
>> There is a compiler failure on arm64 platform, as follow:
>> zhangshaokun@...ntu:~/linux-next$ make -j64
>>   CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
>>   CC      arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>> In file included from ./include/linux/sysctl.h:30:0,
>>                  from ./include/linux/umh.h:9,
>>                  from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
>>                  from ./include/linux/module.h:13,
>>                  from ./include/linux/acpi.h:29,
>>                  from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9,
>>                  from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
>>                  from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
>>                  from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
>> ./include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h:561:29: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘}’ before ‘__attribute__’
>>   NET_IPV6_TEMP_PREFERED_LFT __attribute__((deprecated)) = /* NOTYPO */
>>                              ^
>> scripts/Makefile.build:99: recipe for target 'arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' failed
>> make[1]: *** [arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
>> Makefile:1108: recipe for target 'prepare0' failed
>> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
>>
>> It's the commit <79f0cf35dccb> ("treewide: cleanup: replace prefered with preferred").
> 
> After receiving a report from kisskb for failures for m68k, looking at
> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/f3c452cfc59c817950b150b51ec2b33409d7640b/
> and doing some testing, it looks like this construct is supported by gcc-7
> and gcc-8, but not by gcc-4.6.3 and gcc-5. Don't know about gcc-6.

I guess that's a different problem than the misspelled PREFERED before the __attribute__.

-- 
~Randy