Generic Linux architectural discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: righi.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: + page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures-x86_64-fix.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:23:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701132306.514cc359.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486A75EE.1060606@gmail.com>

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:22:38 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:

> akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Subject: page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures x86_64 fix
> > From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
> > 
> > x86_64 allmodconfig build failed due to a missing #include <linux/mm.h>
> > in arch/x86/kernel/module_64.c.
> 
> There are probably other missing includes like this for other
> architectures, due to the move of PAGE_ALIGN() from asm-*/page.h to
> linux/mm.h. I tested allmodconfig and some randconfig only with x86_64
> and i386.
> 
> I've found other (probably) missing includes doing some simple greps,
> see patch v2:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/15/85
> 
> Otherwise, a less intrusive approach could be to just fix the bug and
> don't move PAGE_ALIGN() out of asm-*/page.h, see v3:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/19/217
> 
> Let me know if you need a patch (v2 or v3) on-top-of the previous one.
> 

It's dopey to duplicate identical code in tens of header files.  There
is no conceivable reason why an architecture would want to have a
customised version of PAGE_ALIGN().

So let's just struggle on and get it right.  Please send me any needed
fixups against the current

page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures.patch
page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures-v850-fix.patch
page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures-x86_64-fix.patch
page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures-powerpc-fix.patch

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 22:33 + page_align-correctly-handle-64-bit-values-on-32-bit-architectures-x86_64-fix.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2008-07-01 18:22 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-01 20:23   ` Andrew Morton [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20080701132306.514cc359.akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-arch@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=paulus@samba.org \
    --cc=righi.andrea@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox