Re: [PATCH] mempool: add missing include

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 19:12:20 EST


On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > > This is a fix^3 for the mempool poisoning patch, which introduces
> > > a compile-time error on some ARM randconfig builds:
> > >
> > > mm/mempool.c: In function 'check_element':
> > > mm/mempool.c:65:16: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmap_atomic' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > > void *addr = kmap_atomic((struct page *)element);
> > >
> > > The problem is clearly the missing declaration, and including
> > > linux/highmem.h fixes it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: a3db5a8463b0db ("mm, mempool: poison elements backed by page allocator fix fix")
> >
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks! Can you confirm that this is because CONFIG_BLOCK is disabled and
> > not something else?
>
> Unfortunately I've lost the information which build was responsible
> for this error (normally I keep it, but my script failed here because the
> same config introduced two new regressions). CONFIG_BLOCK sounds plausible
> here.
>
> If necessary, I can repeat the last few hundred builds without this
> patch to find out what it was.
>

Ok, thanks. The only reason I ask is because if this is CONFIG_BLOCK then
it shouldn't be arm specific and nothing else has reported it. I'll do a
randconfig loop with my arm cross-compiler and see if I can find any other
issues.
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