Re: [stable] The SMP alternatives code breaks exception fixup?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:43:09AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I don't see this in Linus's tree, am I just missing it?  Do you have 
> > > a git commit id?
> > 
> > Isn't this 9d55b9923a1b7ea8193b8875c57ec940dc2ff027 (possibly with 
> > 2532ec6d178abc55681d049097d3dc577eaa266c on top)?
> 
> yeah.
> 
> Greg: note that this is against post-unification asm-x86/futex.h so it 
> wont apply to .24.
> 
> I've backported the fix to .24 - find it below. (untested but obvious)

unfortunatly it doesn't even compile:

distcc[30740] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
In file included from include/asm/futex.h:2,
                 from kernel/futex.c:59:
include/asm/futex_32.h:72:29: error: macro "__futex_atomic_op1" passed 6 arguments, but takes just 5
In file included from include/asm/futex.h:2,
                 from kernel/futex.c:59:
include/asm/futex_32.h: In function 'futex_atomic_op_inuser':
include/asm/futex_32.h:71: error: '__futex_atomic_op1' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/asm/futex_32.h:71: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
include/asm/futex_32.h:71: error: for each function it appears in.)
distcc[30739] ERROR: compile kernel/futex.c on localhost failed
make[1]: *** [kernel/futex.o] Error 1


Care to try again?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h