Re: "Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices" failed to build on powerpc

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 5:04 AM Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 21 September 2019 4:31:16 am AEST, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:18 AM Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 19:55 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> > Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> writes:
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> >> > > The linux-next commit "libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment
> >default when
> >> > > creating dax devices" causes powerpc failed to build with this
> >config. Reverted
> >> > > it fixed the issue.
> >> > >
> >> > > ERROR: "hash__has_transparent_hugepage"
> >[drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko] undefined!
> >> > > ERROR: "radix__has_transparent_hugepage"
> >[drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko]
> >> > > undefined!
> >> > > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:93: __modpost] Error 1
> >> > > make: *** [Makefile:1305: modules] Error 2
> >> > >
> >> > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11133445/
> >> > > [2]
> >https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cailca/linux-mm/master/powerpc.config
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> >> > Sorry for breaking the build. How about?
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> >> It works fine.
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> >Thanks, but let's delay "libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment
> >default when creating dax devices" until after -rc1 to allow Michael
> >time to ack/nak this new export.
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> Thanks Dan. It looks fine to me:
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> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Michael. Aneesh, care to resend with this ack, but also reword
the changelog to say that this patch is a pre-requisite for the follow
on patch to pick dax device alignment? In other words, lets hide this
compile breakage from git-bisect by merging this export before the
consumer patch.