Re: fs: dax: do not build on ARC or SH

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Feb 23 2015 - 13:40:38 EST


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:29:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The DAX implementation relies on the architecture to provide a working
> copy_user_page() function, as reported by Michael Ellerman's kisskb
> build bot:
>
> fs/dax.c: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_user_page' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]: => 266:2
>
> We already have a list of architectures that are known to be incompatible,
> but the list is missing ARC and SH at the moment. Further, blackfin and
> c6x also lack support for this function, but are already excluded because
> they do not support MMU-based kernels.

I've got a short list of patches for DAX; I'll add this one to the list.

Have the maintainers of these architectures been notified that they're
missing a core piece of kernel functionality?
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