Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE

[David Daney]

On 03/21/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On 12-03-21 06:19 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:07:41 -0400
> > Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Naoya Horiguchi
> > > <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > These macros will be used in later patch, where all usage are expected
> > > > to be optimized away without #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
> > > > But to detect unexpected usages, we convert existing BUG() to BUILD_BUG().
> > >
> > > Just a heads up that this showed up in linux-next today as the
> > > cause of a new build failure for an ARM board:
> >
> > Dammit.
> >
> > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/5930053/
> >
> > Site is dead.  What was failure, please?
>
> Odd, I just reloaded the above link and it seems alive?
> Anyway here is where it goes off the rails.
>
> mm/pgtable-generic.c: In function 'pmdp_clear_flush_young':
> mm/pgtable-generic.c:76:136: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed
> make[2]: *** [mm/pgtable-generic.o] Error 1

This is just another instance of:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/16/507

There was some discussion in that thread of how it might be fixed.

David Daney


> Build was for ARM, tct_hammer_defconfig
>
> Paul.
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