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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: next-20200528 - build error in kernel/rcu/refperf.c
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:48:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d8b13db-9d77-416d-e283-9ea509ce43d1@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538911.1590725791@turing-police>

On 5/28/20 9:16 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> commit 9088b449814f788d24f35a5840b6b2c2a23cd32a
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> Date:   Mon May 25 17:22:24 2020 -0700
> 
>     refperf: Provide module parameter to specify number of experiments
> 
> changes this line of code (line 389)
> 
> -               reader_tasks[exp].result_avg = 1000 * process_durations(exp) / ((exp + 1) * loops);
> +               result_avg[exp] = 1000 * process_durations(nreaders) / (nreaders * loops);
> 
> On a 32-bit ARM make allmodconfig with gcc 8.3, this results in:
> 
> ERROR: modpost: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [kernel/rcu/refperf.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:103: __modpost] Error 1
> 
> I admit not understanding why the original line of code worked and the new one doesn't.
> Maybe gcc is smarter/dumber about the ranges of 'exp' and 'nreaders' than we thought?
> 

Paul has already responded: (unfortunately)

"So I am restricting to 64BIT for the time being.  Yeah, I know, lazy of
me.  ;-)"

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200528180855.GP2869@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

-- 
~Randy


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29  4:16 next-20200528 - build error in kernel/rcu/refperf.c Valdis Klētnieks
2020-05-29  4:48 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2020-05-29  5:24   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-05-29 14:02     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-29 13:55 ` Paul E. McKenney

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