Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 21:41:40 EST


Hi all,

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:24:42 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 07:38:59 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:09:47 +0100 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:51:29 +0100,
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There are a few ways to fix this, but all are not comfortable.
> > > >
> > > > A. Disable compress API for powerpc.
> >
> > This also affects alpha, mips and (maybe) sparc.
>
> This was exposed on PowerPC by commit bf76f73c5f65 ("powerpc: enable
> UBSAN support") which is in Linus' tree as of this morning. The only
> relevant change that made was in the compiler flags (I tested this by
> building the file without that commit but with these new compiler flags:
>
> -fsanitize=shift -fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero
> -fsanitize=unreachable -fsanitize=vla-bound -fsanitize=null
> -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow -fsanitize=bounds
> -fsanitize=object-size -fsanitize=returns-nonnull-attribute
> -fsanitize=bool -fsanitize=enum -fsanitize=alignment
>
> The preprocessed file is the same in both cases, but with these flags
> the compiler errors.

So for now I have suppressed the error using the following patch (which
I will keep in my fixes tree until some other fix is applied):

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:24:57 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] next: suppress the building of all the sound codecs on PPC
for now

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig b/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
index 50693c867e71..ee5f36b9c787 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ menu "CODEC drivers"
config SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS
tristate "Build all ASoC CODEC drivers"
depends on COMPILE_TEST
+ depends on !PPC
select SND_SOC_88PM860X if MFD_88PM860X
select SND_SOC_L3
select SND_SOC_AB8500_CODEC if ABX500_CORE
--
2.6.4

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx