Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: fix SMAP virtualization

[Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>]

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 10:53 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> 
> On 05/26/2015 10:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 26/05/2015 16:45, Edward Cree wrote:
> >>>> This breaks older compilers that can't initialize anon structures.
> >>>>
> >>>> How old ? Even gcc 3.1 says you can use unnamed struct/union fields and
> >>>> 3.2 is the minimum version required to compile the kernel as mentioned
> >>>> in the README.
> >>>>
> >>>> We could simply just name the structure, but I doubt this is the
> >>>> only place in the kernel code where it's being used this way :)
> >> This appears to be GCC bug #10676, see <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676>
> >> Says it was fixed in 4.6, but I believe the kernel supports GCCs much older
> >> than that (back to 3.2).  I personally hit it on 4.4.7, the version shipped
> >> with RHEL6.6.
> >
> > Yes, it will be fixed soon(ish).  Probably before you can get rid of the
> > obnoxious disclaimer... :)
> 
> It has been fixed by Andrew:
> 
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 bug

Folks, this fix is missing in both -tip and Linus' (4.1-rc7) tree. At
least I'm running into it.

Thanks,
Davidlohr