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From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmalloc: fix vmalloc users tracking properly
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:51:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170509145151.GI10395@distanz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170509144108.31910-1-mhocko@kernel.org>

On 2017-05-09 at 16:41:08 +0200, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> 1f5307b1e094 ("mm, vmalloc: properly track vmalloc users") has pulled
> asm/pgtable.h include dependency to linux/vmalloc.h and that turned out
> to be a bad idea for some architectures. E.g. m68k fails with
>    In file included from arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h:145:0,
>                     from arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable.h:4,
>                     from include/linux/vmalloc.h:9,
>                     from arch/m68k/kernel/module.c:9:
>    arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h: In function 'nocache_page':
> >> arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h:339:43: error: 'init_mm' undeclared (first use in this function)
>     #define pgd_offset_k(address) pgd_offset(&init_mm, address)
> 
> as spotted by kernel build bot. nios2 fails for other reason
> In file included from ./include/asm-generic/io.h:767:0,
>                  from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/io.h:61,
>                  from ./include/linux/io.h:25,
>                  from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h:18,
>                  from ./include/linux/mm.h:70,
>                  from ./include/linux/pid_namespace.h:6,
>                  from ./include/linux/ptrace.h:9,
>                  from ./arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/elf.h:23,
>                  from ./arch/nios2/include/asm/elf.h:22,
>                  from ./include/linux/elf.h:4,
>                  from ./include/linux/module.h:15,
>                  from init/main.c:16:
> ./include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function '__vmalloc_node_flags':
> ./include/linux/vmalloc.h:99:40: error: 'PAGE_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'GFP_KERNEL'?
> 
> which is due to the newly added #include <asm/pgtable.h>, which on nios2
> includes <linux/io.h> and thus <asm/io.h> and <asm-generic/io.h> which
> again includes <linux/vmalloc.h>.
> 
> Tweaking that around just turns out a bigger headache than
> necessary. This patch reverts 1f5307b1e094 and reimplements the original
> fix in a different way. __vmalloc_node_flags can stay static inline
> which will cover vmalloc* functions. We only have one external user
> (kvmalloc_node) and we can export __vmalloc_node_flags_caller and
> provide the caller directly. This is much simpler and it doesn't really
> need any games with header files.
> 
> Fixes: 1f5307b1e094 ("mm, vmalloc: properly track vmalloc users")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Tested-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>

This fixes the build for ARCH=nios2, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-09 14:41 [PATCH] mm, vmalloc: fix vmalloc users tracking properly Michal Hocko
2017-05-09 14:51 ` Tobias Klauser [this message]
2017-05-09 15:25 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-09 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10  9:37   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-10  9:51   ` Tobias Klauser
2017-05-09 15:59 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-09 19:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-09 19:36   ` Michal Hocko

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