Re: Build failures with gcc 4.5 and older

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:15:59 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> > Confused.  Why does it think that the mm_struct is "otherwise empty"?
> > 
> 
> The problem isn't really that the structure is otherwise empty.
> Some digging reveals that the error message is wrong; gcc should
> instead complain about having no _named_ structure element before
> the flexible array member.
> 
> > This shuts it up:
> > 
> > --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~a
> > +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > @@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
> >  #endif
> >  	} __randomize_layout;
> >  
> > +	int wibble;
> >  	/*
> >  	 * The mm_cpumask needs to be at the end of mm_struct, because it
> >  	 * is dynamically sized based on nr_cpu_ids.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, that only triggers secondary errors.
> Seen with both gcc 4.4 and 4.5.
> 
> mm/init-mm.c:29: error: unknown field ‘mm_rb’ specified in initializer
> mm/init-mm.c:29: warning: missing braces around initializer
> mm/init-mm.c:29: warning: (near initialization for ‘init_mm.<anonymous>’)
> mm/init-mm.c:29: error: incompatible types when initializing type ‘struct
> vm_area_struct *’ using type ‘struct rb_root’
> mm/init-mm.c:30: error: unknown field ‘pgd’ specified in initializer
> 
> and many more similar errors.

This works, I think.

The m68k build still fails because 0cc3cd21657 ("cpu/hotplug: Boot HT
siblings at least once") was evidently never tested on CONFIG_SMP=n. 
How could that come about - the patch is six weeks old??

kernel/cpu.c: In function 'boot_cpu_hotplug_init':
kernel/cpu.c:2275:2: error: 'struct cpuhp_cpu_state' has no member named 'booted_once'


--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~a
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -490,6 +490,8 @@ struct mm_struct {
 #endif
 	} __randomize_layout;
 
+	int wibble;
+
 	/*
 	 * The mm_cpumask needs to be at the end of mm_struct, because it
 	 * is dynamically sized based on nr_cpu_ids.
--- a/mm/init-mm.c~a
+++ a/mm/init-mm.c
@@ -26,15 +26,17 @@
  * and size this cpu_bitmask to NR_CPUS.
  */
 struct mm_struct init_mm = {
-	.mm_rb		= RB_ROOT,
-	.pgd		= swapper_pg_dir,
-	.mm_users	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
-	.mm_count	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
-	.mmap_sem	= __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(init_mm.mmap_sem),
-	.page_table_lock =  __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.page_table_lock),
-	.arg_lock	=  __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.arg_lock),
-	.mmlist		= LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist),
-	.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,
+	{
+		.mm_rb		= RB_ROOT,
+		.pgd		= swapper_pg_dir,
+		.mm_users	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
+		.mm_count	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
+		.mmap_sem	= __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(init_mm.mmap_sem),
+		.page_table_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.page_table_lock),
+		.arg_lock	= __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.arg_lock),
+		.mmlist		= LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist),
+		.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,
+	},
 	.cpu_bitmap	= { [BITS_TO_LONGS(NR_CPUS)] = 0},
 	INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm)
 };
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