Re: [PATCH v2] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()

[Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>]

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:42 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 15:04 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > It looks like you forgot to update frv?  It's been failing on -next since a
> > few days:

Anyway developers can be alerted sooner about this (ie: while its still
in -next phase), like automated emails or something? This would be extra
nice for those archs that are harder to get tested.

> > kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h:87:2: error: implicit declaration of
> > function 'cpu_relax_lowlatency'
> > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> > kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h:87:2: error: implicit declaration of
> > function 'cpu_relax_lowlatency'
> > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > make[3]: *** [kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.o] Error 1
> > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> > make[3]: *** [kernel/locking/mutex.o] Error 1
> > 
> > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/11616307/
> 
> Ah, indeed. Thanks for the report, afaict this was the only missing
> arch .

Adding Guenter who also reported this yesterday.

Linus, since this is build-breaking an entire arch, it might be worth
avoiding the whole -tip thing and get the fix in as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Davidlohr