Re: Question on smp_mb__before_spinlock

From: kbuild test robot
Date: Mon Sep 05 2016 - 06:52:37 EST


Hi Peter,

[auto build test ERROR on linus/master]
[also build test ERROR on v4.8-rc5 next-20160825]
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url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Peter-Zijlstra/Question-on-smp_mb__before_spinlock/20160905-174026
config: i386-randconfig-s1-201636 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-6 (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
reproduce:
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make ARCH=i386

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

fs/overlayfs/readdir.c: In function 'ovl_dir_fsync':
>> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c:449:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'smp_mb__before_spinlock' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
smp_mb__before_spinlock();
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

vim +/smp_mb__before_spinlock +449 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c

d45f00ae Al Viro 2014-10-28 443 realfile = lockless_dereference(od->upperfile);
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 444 if (!realfile) {
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 445 struct path upperpath;
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 446
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 447 ovl_path_upper(dentry, &upperpath);
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 448 realfile = ovl_path_open(&upperpath, O_RDONLY);
d45f00ae Al Viro 2014-10-28 @449 smp_mb__before_spinlock();
5955102c Al Viro 2016-01-22 450 inode_lock(inode);
3d268c9b Al Viro 2014-10-23 451 if (!od->upperfile) {
e9be9d5e Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 452 if (IS_ERR(realfile)) {

:::::: The code at line 449 was first introduced by commit
:::::: d45f00ae43e63eff1b3d79df20610ae1ef645ebd overlayfs: barriers for opening upper-layer directory

:::::: TO: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:::::: CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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