linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:22:37 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "David Hildenbrand" <david@...hat.com>, peterx <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 "Mike Rapoport" <rppt@...nel.org>, "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@...dia.com>,
 "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@...dia.com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 loongarch@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 x86@...nel.org, "Ryan Roberts" <ryan.roberts@....com>,
 "Alexander Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 "Matt Turner" <mattst88@...il.com>, "Vineet Gupta" <vgupta@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] mm/gup: consistently call it GUP-fast

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, at 16:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 27.03.24 16:21, Peter Xu wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:05:35PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not sure what config you tried there; as I am doing some build tests
>> recently, I found turning off CONFIG_SAMPLES + CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS could
>> avoid a lot of issues, I think it's due to libc missing.  But maybe not the
>> case there.
>
> CCin Arnd; I use some of his compiler chains, others from Fedora directly. For
> example for alpha and arc, the Fedora gcc is "13.2.1".

>
> But there is other stuff like (arc):
>
> ./arch/arc/include/asm/mmu-arcv2.h: In function 'mmu_setup_asid':
> ./arch/arc/include/asm/mmu-arcv2.h:82:9: error: implicit declaration of 
> function 'write_aux_reg' [-Werro
> r=implicit-function-declaration]
>     82 |         write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PID, asid | MMU_ENABLE);
>        |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

Seems to be missing an #include of soc/arc/aux.h, but I can't
tell when this first broke without bisecting.

> or (alpha)
>
> WARNING: modpost: "saved_config" [vmlinux] is COMMON symbol
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [fs/nfs/nfsv3.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [fs/lockd/lockd.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [crypto/crypto.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [crypto/crypto_algapi.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [crypto/aead.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [crypto/crypto_skcipher.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [crypto/seqiv.ko] undefined!

Al did a series to fix various build problems on alpha, see
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/log/?h=work.alpha
Not sure if he still has to send them to Matt, or if Matt
just needs to apply them.

I also have some alpha patches that I should send upstream.

     Arnd