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* [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Fix build for anonymous union in older gcc compilers
@ 2018-06-22  0:35 Steven Rostedt
  2018-06-22  2:05 ` Waiman Long
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2018-06-22  0:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML
  Cc: Linus Torvalds, Will Deacon, Peter Zijlstra (Intel),
	Waiman Long, Boqun Feng, Ingo Molnar, linux-arm-kernel,
	Andrew Morton

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

One of my tests compiles the kernel with gcc 4.5.3, and I hit the
following build error:

/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/semaphore.h: In function 'sema_init':
/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/semaphore.h:35:17: error: unknown field 'val' specified in initializer
/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/semaphore.h:35:17: warning: missing braces around initializer
/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/semaphore.h:35:17: warning: (near initialization for '(anonymous).raw_lock.<anonymous>.val')
In file included from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/sched/user.h:7:0,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/cred.h:22,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/seq_file.h:12,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/cgroup.h:18,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/memcontrol.h:22,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/swap.h:9,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/suspend.h:5,
                 from /work/git/linux-trace.git/arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:13:


I bisected it down to the introduction of the commit that makes
qspinlock have an anonymous union, which makes initializing it special
for older compilers. By adding strategic brackets, it makes the build
happy again.

Fixes: 625e88be1f41 ("locking/qspinlock: Merge 'struct __qspinlock' into 'struct qspinlock'")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h
index 0763f065b975..d10f1e7d6ba8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ typedef struct qspinlock {
 /*
  * Initializier
  */
-#define	__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED	{ .val = ATOMIC_INIT(0) }
+#define	__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED	{ { .val = ATOMIC_INIT(0) } }
 
 /*
  * Bitfields in the atomic value:

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