Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sun Feb 12 2017 - 23:38:18 EST


On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 01:21:33PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:54:37 -0800 Paul McKenney <paulmckrcu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > >
> > > After merging the rcu tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> > > failed like this:
> > >
> > > net/smc/af_smc.c:102:16: error: 'SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > > .slab_flags = SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
> > > ^
> > >
> > > Caused by commit
> > >
> > > c7a545924ca1 ("mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU")
> > >
> > > interacting with commit
> > >
> > > ac7138746e14 ("smc: establish new socket family")
> > >
> > > from the net-next tree.
> > >
> > > I have applied the following merge fix patch (someone will need to
> > > remember to mention this to Linus):
> >
> > Thank you, Stephen! I expect that there might be a bit more
> > bikeshedding on the name, but here is hoping... :-/
>
> The need for this merge fix patch has gone away today. Is that a
> permanent situation, or will it come back?

I chickened out on that commit for this merge window, so it will come
back at -rc1. But I will cover that when I rebase to -rc1.

Thanx, Paul