Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree(tip/s390 trees related)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 18 2012 - 14:29:54 EST



* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (s390 allyesconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> mm/huge_memory.c:1424:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_pgprot' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> mm/huge_memory.c:1424:7: error: incompatible types when assigning to type 'pgprot_t' from type 'int'
>
> (see http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/7383823/)
>
> Caused by commit 35d3d3427314 ("s390/thp: select
> HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE") from the s390 tree interacting with
> commit 93c9d633bd9e ("mm/thp: Preserve pgprot across huge page split")
> from the tip tree.
>
> N.B. Mips also selects HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE as of commit
> e21a828a1bba ("MIPS: Transparent Huge Pages support") from the mips tree
> and so will be broken in some configs now as well.
>
> Anyone have suggested merge fix patches I can apply?

Resolved it for now by excluding those changes, will put them
back in once they are fixed.

Thanks,

Ingo

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