linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v6.8

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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 19:57:40 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v6.8

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 at 18:06, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> This does not even compile for me.
>
>   arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h: In function ‘__untagged_addr’:
>   arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:25:28: error: implicit declaration
> of function ‘__my_cpu_var’; did you mean ‘put_cpu_var’?
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Side note: the whole __my_cpu_var() reminds me of the attached patch
that I have in my testing tree, and have been carrying along for a
number of months now.

I definitely think it's the right thing to do, so here it is again,
even if it is only tangentially related to the build failure wrt this
broken pull request.

                   Linus

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