Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 31 (build failures and culprits)

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 03/31/2015 04:24 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 01:07 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 09:16:40AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> alpha:allmodconfig
>>> mips:allmodconfig
>>>
>>> samples/kdbus/kdbus-workers.c: In function ‘prime_new’:
>>> samples/kdbus/kdbus-workers.c:930:18: error: ‘__NR_memfd_create’ undeclared
>>> (first use in this function)
>>>    p->fd = syscall(__NR_memfd_create, "prime-area", MFD_CLOEXEC);
>>>
>>> Looks like the kdbus example never worked for the affected architectures.
>>> I don't build allmodconfig for all architectures, so other architectures
>>> may be affected as well.
>>
>> You need 3.17 kernel headers to have memfd_create, not much the kdbus
>> test code can do about that.  You might want to update the kernel
>> headers for these build boxes.
>
> Or just 'make headers_install' before building the samples should do it.
>

Sure, that works so well in a cross build environment.

Guenter