Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/kaiser: avoid 32-bit/PAE build warning

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This changes the type to u64 in the architecture-independent dummy,
> and to pteval_t in the x86 specific portion that is used when KAISER
> is enabled, ensuring that the flags can always fit. Unfortunately,
> pteval_t is not provided by most other architectures, so we are
> a little bit inconsistent here.

I ran into a new regression with my patch applied, after doing more randconfig
builds:

In file included from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/kaiser.h:5,
                 from /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c:4:
arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h:34:10: error: unknown type name
'pteval_t'; did you mean 'dev_t'?

Maybe it's better to just to the last one-line change in include/linux/kaiser.h.

       Arnd