Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.3-rc7

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> JFYI, when comparing v4.3-rc7[1] to v4.3-rc6[3], the summaries are:
>>   - build errors: +12/-4

>   + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: error: 'L_PTE_DIRTY' undeclared (first use in this function):  => 39:2
>   + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: error: 'L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK' undeclared (first use in this function):  => 39:2
>   + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: error: 'L_PTE_PRESENT' undeclared (first use in this function):  => 39:2
>   + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: error: 'L_PTE_XN' undeclared (first use in this function):  => 39:2
>   + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm/kernel/patch.c: error: 'L_PTE_YOUNG' undeclared (first use in this function):  => 39:2

Caused by:

commit ab0615e2d6fb074764a3e4d05f1326fa2fdb4627
Author: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Apr 24 23:28:57 2014 +0200

    arm: use fixmap for text patching when text is RO

Should the call to set_fixmap() in arch/arm/kernel/patch.c
just be protected by #ifdef CONFIG_MMU?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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