From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756829AbYDRGqN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:46:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752023AbYDRGp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:45:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56629 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269AbYDRGp5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:45:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:45:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add default CPU topology information Message-Id: <20080417234513.367c9ddc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080331114412.GH21637@solarflare.com> References: <20080331114412.GH21637@solarflare.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:44:13 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Not all architectures and configurations define CPU topology information. > This can result in an empty topology directory in sysfs, and requires > in-kernel users to protect all uses with #ifdef - see > . > > The documentation of CPU topology specifies what the defaults should be > if only partial information is available from the hardware. So we can > provide these defaults as a fallback. powerpc allmodconfig: arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c:655: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'void' arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c:655: error: expected ')' before '(' token Because this: #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA int pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus) { struct pci_controller *phb = pci_bus_to_host(bus); return phb->node; } #endif is expanding to int ((void)(bus), -1)(struct pci_bus *bus) which the compiler has trouble with. This: +++ a/include/asm-powerpc/topology.h @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_device_f #endif #endif +#define pcibus_to_node pcibus_to_node + #include #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ _ gets it working, by tricking the preprocessor into expanding pcibus_to_node to itself, but it isn't exactly pleasing.