Re: building in 32bit chroot on x86_64 host broken

[Thomas Backlund]

Den 2018-06-05 kl. 22:13, skrev Linus Torvalds:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:50 AM Thomas Backlund <tmb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > but why do you care?
> > Because without it running the build in the 32bit chroot will get the
> > initial reported issue:
> Ahh. I can re-create that now.
>
> Yes, doing
>
>        make ARCH=i386 allnoconfig
>
> followed by
>
>        make oldconfig
>
> is broken. And doing a trivial "git bisect run" to pinpoint where
> CONFIG_64BIT goes away gives us
>
> f467c5640c29ad258c3cd8186a776c82fc3b8057 is the first bad commit
>
> which does that
>
>    "kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' for visible symbols"
>
> and it turns out that CONFIG_64BIT is not a visible symbol on x86-32,
> because that question is disabled when ARCH != "x86".
>
>          bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
>
> And the problem with that, is that *next* time around this config file
> is used, because we don't have that
>
>    # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
>
> line, we don't turn it into
>
>    CONFIG_64BIT=n
>
> and then the "depends on" in X86_64
>
>    config X86_64
>            def_bool y
>            depends on 64BIT
>
> no longer hides it.
>
> Hmm. Ulf, Masahiro, comments?
>
> Should we just revert that commit?
>
> Thomas, can you verify that a
>
>          git revert f467c5640c29ad258c3cd8186a776c82fc3b8057
>
> fixes the problem for you?
>
>                Linus

Yep, that fixes it so it works both in the 32bit chroot and on the 
64bit host

--
Thomas