Re: [RFC PATCH] PPC32: Fix build failure caused by missing dirty pte handlers

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 22:13:57 EST


On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 09:22 -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote:

> In 4.5-rc1, I am getting a build failure as follows:
>
> mm/memory.c: In function âdo_swap_pageâ:
> mm/memory.c:2573:9: error: implicit declaration of function âpte_mksoft_dirtyâ
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
>
> The soft dirty pte handlers are declared only for PPC64 on PPC_BOOK3S in
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h and missing in the 32-bit arch.
>
> Avoid this error by not setting HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY for 32-bit system.

It's building for me, what config are you using?

http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/12597204/

cheers