Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: fix undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages' on PPC builds

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:01:50 -0800 josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:02:00PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > It's possible to configure DEBUG_PAGEALLOC without PAGE_POISONING on
> > ppc.  Fix building the generic kernel_map_pages() implementation in
> > this case:
> > 
> >   LD      init/built-in.o
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
> > mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
> > mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> > mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
> > mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/Makefile | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
> > index 4bf586e..2956467 100644
> > --- a/mm/Makefile
> > +++ b/mm/Makefile
> > @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLOB) += slob.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) += mmu_notifier.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_KSM) += ksm.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) += debug-pagealloc.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) += debug-pagealloc.o
> 
> Does it work correctly to list the same object file twice?  Doesn't seem
> like it would.  Shouldn't this do something like the following instead:
> 
> ifneq ($(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING),)
> obj-y += debug-pagealloc.o
> endif
> 

I expect it's a Kconfig problem.  DEBUG_PAGEALLOC should be selecting
PAGE_POISONING.

config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
	depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
	depends on !KMEMCHECK
	select PAGE_EXTENSION
	select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

Culprits cc'ed!