Re: mmotm 2020-07-27-18-18 uploaded (mm/page_alloc.c)

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 03:39:21PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/28/20 2:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:33:58 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 7/27/20 6:19 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2020-07-27-18-18 has been uploaded to
> >>>
> >>>    http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> 
> 
> >> on x86_64:
> >>
> >> ../mm/page_alloc.c:8355:48: warning: âstruct compact_controlâ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> >>  static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
> >>                                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > As is usually the case with your reports, I can't figure out how to
> > reproduce it.  I copy then .config, run `make oldconfig' (need to hit
> > enter a zillion times because the .config is whacky) then the build
> > succeeds.  What's the secret?
> 
> I was not aware that there was a problem. cp .config and make oldconfig
> should be sufficient -- and I don't understand why you would need to hit
> enter many times.
> 
> I repeated this on my system without having to answer any oldconfig prompts
> and still got build errors.
> 
> There is no secret that I know of, but it would be good to get to the
> bottom of this problem.
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 

I usually do 'olddefconfig', which is the same as oldconfig but it
selects the default value of the symbols that are new. This usually
happens for me if I am flipping around in different trees like mainline
and next, where there might be new or different symbols between them.

Cheers,
Nathan