Re: powerpc KVM build break in linux-next (was Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 40/40] srcu: Parallelize callback handling)

[Michael Ellerman]

"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:28:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 20/04/2017 05:40, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > 
>> > This change seems to have had the non-obvious effect of breaking the
>> > powerpc KVM build.
...
>> 
>> Michael, if you want to move the two srcu structs at the end of struct
>> kvm, that would be fine by me.  Please send a patch yourself so you can
>> test it on PPC.  Thanks,
>
> On the off-chance that it is at all helpful, I have added the commit
> shown below to -rcu.

As shown below :)

> If it helps, I am happy to push this, but am just as happy to drop it
> in favor of some other fix. If at all possible, I would like to get
> this into the upcoming merge window.

Thanks, this looks perfect to me, and if you're happy to put it on top
of your tree that would limit the breakage to a smaller history window,
so that would be ideal.

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

cheers