Re: linux-next: Tree for Jan 10

[Steven Price]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:11:41AM +0000, Anders Roxell wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 09:07, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Changes since 20200109:
> 
> I see the following build error on arm64:
> 
> ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c: In function âptdump_walkâ:
> ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c:326:2: error: too few arguments to function
> âptdump_walk_pgdâ
>   ptdump_walk_pgd(&st.ptdump, info->mm);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c:18:
> ../include/linux/ptdump.h:20:6: note: declared here
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm,
> pgd_t *pgd);
>       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c: In function âptdump_check_wxâ:
> ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c:364:2: error: too few arguments to function
> âptdump_walk_pgdâ
>   ptdump_walk_pgd(&st.ptdump, &init_mm);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from ../arch/arm64/mm/dump.c:18:
> ../include/linux/ptdump.h:20:6: note: declared here
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm,
> pgd_t *pgd);
>       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[3]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:266: arch/arm64/mm/dump.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors.
> make[2]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/arm64/mm] Error 2
> make[2]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: *** [/srv/jenkins/kernel/randconfig/Makefile:1683: arch/arm64] Error 2
> 
> I think something happened when applying patch [1], the changes in
> arch/arm64/mm/dump.c
> got dropped somehow. What that intended ?
> 

Indeed this chunk appears to be missing in Andrew's version of the
patch[1] too. Clearly the interface change needs to be included in the
arm64 code. Perhaps the "x86" tag in the subject caused confusion?

Steve

[1] https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/x86-mm-avoid-allocating-struct-mm_struct-on-the-stack.patch

> 
> Cheers,
> Anders
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200108145710.34314-1-steven.price@xxxxxxx/