sparc32 build failure [Was: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree]

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 05:27:53AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:10:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (sparc32 defconfig)
> > failed like this:
> > 
> > In file included from arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h:455,
> >                  from arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable.h:6,
> >                  from include/linux/mm.h:41,
> >                  from arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c:17:
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'pmdp_get_and_clear':
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:96: error: implicit declaration of function '__pmd'
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:96: error: incompatible types when returning type 'int' but 'pmd_t' was expected
> > 
> > and *lots* more.
> > 
> > Caused by commit e2cda322648122dc400c85ada80eaddbc612ef6a ("thp: add pmd
> > mangling generic functions").  This has already been reported broken in
> > other architectures as well.
> > 
> > I have just left it for today.
> 
> See arch/sparc/include/asm/page_32.h
> 
> /* #define __pmd(x)        ((pmd_t) { (x) } ) */ /* XXX procedure with loop */
> /* #define __pmd(x)        (x) */ /* XXX later */
> 
> 
> Not sure why __pmd is commented out on sparc32 (it isn't in sparc64,
> this is why sparc looked like building ok in a earlier report).
> 
> Removing those two comments at first glance should fix the build, but
> I don't understand the comment, so I'm unsure if it's safe and what
> "XXX later" means. Overall this __pmd(0) thing is just a fake.  We've
> to return some dummy pmd_t structure to build, because the function
> returns a pmd_t, there's a BUG() before __pmd is evaluated, but I
> didn't think of a better way yet than to return __pmd(0).
> 
> static inline pmd_t pmdp_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
>        	      	    			             unsigned long
>        	      	    			             address,
> 						     pmd_t *pmdp)
> {
> 	BUG();
> 	return __pmd(0);
> }

Hi Andrea.

Can we get the build fixed ASAP or do we wait for David to comment on this?

	Sam