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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:37:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:12:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> I also saw another warning:
> >>
> >> /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c: In function 'kaiser_init':
> >> /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c:347:8: error: 'vsyscall_pgprot'
> >> undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean
> >> 'massage_pgprot'?
> >>
> >> I can send this as proper patches for inclusion in 4.9-stable, unless
> >> someone has a better idea or finds a problem
> >
> > proper patches would be good :)
> 
> Sent two patches now. I want to make sure I haven't missed anything there,
> especially as my first approach at fixing it ended up causing other build
> failures.
> 
> In order to test this, I backported some 35 other (mostly trivial) patches later
> kernels, and now I have a 4.9.80 based tree that produces a clean randconfig
> build every time on arm64 and x86_64. If you want, I'll send you the list
> of the required backports as well. From what I can tell, they are all
> harmless (unused functions, missing Kconfig dependencies etc), but
> being able to do randconfig builds reliable gives us an additional tool for
> regression testing the stable kernels.

Sure, I'll be glad to take those.

> For 4.14-stable, we only need a handful of patches, but only one of those
> is upstream, I'll try my best to get the others merged with a Cc stable tag
> so 4.14 randconfig should build cleanly soon.

Again, I'll be glad to take them as well.

> I suspect 4.4 would require even more patches, but I have not looked.

If the above doesn't clean up 4.4 as well, that would be surprising :)

Anyway, 4.4 might be nice to have "clean" if possible, and it's not too
much trouble.

thanks,

greg k-h