Hi Andrew, After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: In file included from include/linux/init.h:4:0, from fs/eventpoll.c:14: fs/eventpoll.c: In function 'eventpoll_init': include/linux/compiler.h:321:20: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_2137' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128 prefix ## suffix(); \ ^ include/linux/compiler.h:326:2: note: in expansion of macro '__compiletime_assert' __compiletime_assert(condition, msg, prefix, suffix) ^ include/linux/compiler.h:338:2: note: in expansion of macro '_compiletime_assert' _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__) ^ include/linux/bug.h:50:37: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert' #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg) ^ include/linux/bug.h:74:2: note: in expansion of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG' BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(condition, "BUILD_BUG_ON failed: " #condition) ^ fs/eventpoll.c:2137:2: note: in expansion of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON' BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128); ^ Presumably caused by commit 83b5ec605b7e ("epoll: optimize EPOLL_CTL_DEL using rcu"). I have reverted that commit and 2 follow up commits to that file ("epoll: do not take global 'epmutex' for simple topologies" and "epoll-do-not-take-global-epmutex-for-simple-topologies-fix") for today. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au