Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Michael Ellerman]

[ Cc += linux-arch & Arnd ]

Hi Tony,

This looks OK to me, but I'm always a bit nervous about changes in uapi.
I've Cc'ed linux-arch and Arnd who look after the asm-generic headers,
which this is slightly related to, just in case.

One minor comment below.

Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> writes:
> A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
>
> Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
> first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
> musl 1.1.24:
>
>   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
>                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
>                    from libbpf.c:29:
>   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
>    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
>
>   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
>                    from libbpf.c:26:
>   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>    #define EDEADLOCK       58
>
>   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> Fixes: 95f28190aa01 ("tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf")
> Fixes: c3617f72036c ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm")

I suspect that's not the right commit to tag. It just moved errno.h from
arch/powerpc/include/asm to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm. It's content
was almost identical, and entirely identical as far as EDEADLOCK was
concerned.

Prior to that the file lived in asm-powerpc/errno.h, eg:

$ git cat-file -p b8b572e1015f^:include/asm-powerpc/errno.h

Before that it was include/asm-ppc64/errno.h, content still the same.

To go back further we'd have to look at the historical git trees, which
is probably overkill. I'm pretty sure it's always had this problem.

So we should probably drop the Fixes tags and just Cc: stable, that
means please backport it as far back as possible.

cheers


> Reported-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>  * clean up commit description formatting
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h       | 1 +
>  tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  
> +#undef	EDEADLOCK
>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>  
>  #undef	EDEADLOCK
> diff --git a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> +++ b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  
> +#undef	EDEADLOCK
>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>  
>  #undef	EDEADLOCK
> -- 
> 2.25.1

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Tony Ambardar]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 04:55, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> [ Cc += linux-arch & Arnd ]
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> This looks OK to me, but I'm always a bit nervous about changes in uapi.
> I've Cc'ed linux-arch and Arnd who look after the asm-generic headers,
> which this is slightly related to, just in case.
>
I agree with the caution and would welcome any other insights.

> One minor comment below.
>
> Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> writes:
> > A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> > EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> > errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> > include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> > not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> > value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
> >
> > Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
> > first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
> > musl 1.1.24:
> >
> >   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
> >                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
> >                    from libbpf.c:29:
> >   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
> >    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
> >
> >   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
> >                    from libbpf.c:26:
> >   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> >    #define EDEADLOCK       58
> >
> >   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> > Fixes: 95f28190aa01 ("tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf")
> > Fixes: c3617f72036c ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm")
>
> I suspect that's not the right commit to tag. It just moved errno.h from
> arch/powerpc/include/asm to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm. It's content
> was almost identical, and entirely identical as far as EDEADLOCK was
> concerned.
>
> Prior to that the file lived in asm-powerpc/errno.h, eg:
>
> $ git cat-file -p b8b572e1015f^:include/asm-powerpc/errno.h
>
> Before that it was include/asm-ppc64/errno.h, content still the same.
>
> To go back further we'd have to look at the historical git trees, which
> is probably overkill. I'm pretty sure it's always had this problem.
>
> So we should probably drop the Fixes tags and just Cc: stable, that
> means please backport it as far back as possible.
>
Yes, you're right. Those two commits were simply where I stopped tracing back
the long chain. I'll drop them as you suggest and request a backport instead in
the next version of the patch.

Thanks for your feedback!
> cheers
>
>
> > Reported-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > v1 -> v2:
> >  * clean up commit description formatting
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h       | 1 +
> >  tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> >  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
> >  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
> >
> > +#undef       EDEADLOCK
> >  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
> >
> >  #undef       EDEADLOCK
> > diff --git a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> > --- a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > +++ b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> >  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
> >  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
> >
> > +#undef       EDEADLOCK
> >  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
> >
> >  #undef       EDEADLOCK
> > --
> > 2.25.1

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:55 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> [ Cc += linux-arch & Arnd ]
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> This looks OK to me, but I'm always a bit nervous about changes in uapi.
> I've Cc'ed linux-arch and Arnd who look after the asm-generic headers,
> which this is slightly related to, just in case.
>
> One minor comment below.
>
> Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> writes:
> > A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> > EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> > errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> > include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> > not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> > value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
> >
> > Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
> > first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
> > musl 1.1.24:
> >
> >   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
> >                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
> >                    from libbpf.c:29:
> >   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
> >    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
> >
> >   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
> >                    from libbpf.c:26:
> >   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> >    #define EDEADLOCK       58
> >
> >   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> > Fixes: 95f28190aa01 ("tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf")
> > Fixes: c3617f72036c ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm")
>
> I suspect that's not the right commit to tag. It just moved errno.h from
> arch/powerpc/include/asm to arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm. It's content
> was almost identical, and entirely identical as far as EDEADLOCK was
> concerned.
>
> Prior to that the file lived in asm-powerpc/errno.h, eg:
>
> $ git cat-file -p b8b572e1015f^:include/asm-powerpc/errno.h
>
> Before that it was include/asm-ppc64/errno.h, content still the same.
>
> To go back further we'd have to look at the historical git trees, which
> is probably overkill. I'm pretty sure it's always had this problem.
>
> So we should probably drop the Fixes tags and just Cc: stable, that
> means please backport it as far back as possible.

I can see that the two numbers (35 and 58) were consistent across
multiple architectures (i386, m68k, ppc32) up to linux-2.0.1, while
other architectures had two unique numbers (alpha, mips, sparc)
at the time, and sparc had BSD and Solaris compatible numbers
in addition.

In linux-2.0.2, alpha and i386 got changed to use 35 for both,
but the other architectures remained unchanged. All later
architectures followed x86 in using the same number for both.

I foudn a message about tcl breaking at compile time when
it changed:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9607.3/0500.html

The errno man page says they are supposed to be synonyms,
and glibc defines it that way, while musl uses the numbers
from the kernel.

        Arnd

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 17 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The errno man page says they are supposed to be synonyms,
> and glibc defines it that way, while musl uses the numbers
> from the kernel.

glibc also uses whatever the kernel defines.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Tony Ambardar]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 07:34, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 17 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > The errno man page says they are supposed to be synonyms,
> > and glibc defines it that way, while musl uses the numbers
> > from the kernel.
>
> glibc also uses whatever the kernel defines.
>
That's right, and from my investigation this isn't a libc issue. The
various libc flavours simply try to follow POSIX and the PPC ABI and
aren't doing anything wrong.

See errno.h for example (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html):
  EDEADLK: Resource deadlock avoided (POSIX.1-2001).
  EDEADLOCK: On most architectures, a synonym for EDEADLK.  On some
architectures (e.g., Linux MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC), it is a separate
error code "File locking deadlock error".

The root cause is unique to the Linux PPC code in
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:
  >/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
  >#ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
  >#define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
  >
  >#include <asm-generic/errno.h>
  >
  >#undef  EDEADLOCK
  >#define EDEADLOCK       58      /* File locking deadlock error */
  >
  >#endif  /* _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H */

It includes "<asm-generic/errno.h>" to pull in various definitions but
has the side-effect of redefining EDEADLOCK to a non-ABI value which
conflicts with the libc errno.h, as I outline in the patch
description. Other arches which also use different EDEADLOCK and
EDEADLK values (mips,sparc) do not do this. They define EDEADLOCK
*once*, with an ABI-consistent value, and don't have the same issue.

The problem goes back a ways (as Arnd points out), affecting current
stable and all LTS branches, so would be nice to get this sorted out.
I'm certainly interested if there's a better way than proposed in this
patch.

> Andreas.
>
> --
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
> GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
> "And now for something completely different."

[PATCH v3] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Tony Ambardar]

A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").

Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
musl 1.1.24:

  In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
                   from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
                   from libbpf.c:29:
  ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
   #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK

  In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
                   from libbpf.c:26:
  toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
   #define EDEADLOCK       58

  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
 * clean up commit description formatting

v2 -> v3: (per Michael Ellerman)
 * drop indeterminate 'Fixes' tags, request stable backports instead 
---
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h       | 1 +
 tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
 #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
 
+#undef	EDEADLOCK
 #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
 
 #undef	EDEADLOCK
diff --git a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
--- a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
+++ b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
 #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
 
+#undef	EDEADLOCK
 #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
 
 #undef	EDEADLOCK
-- 
2.25.1

Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Tony Ambardar]

Hello Michael,

The latest version of this patch addressed all feedback I'm aware of
when submitted last September, and I've seen no further comments from
reviewers since then.

Could you please let me know where this stands and if anything further
is needed?

Kind regards,
Tony

On Thu, 17 Sept 2020 at 06:54, Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
>
> Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
> first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
> musl 1.1.24:
>
>   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
>                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
>                    from libbpf.c:29:
>   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
>    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
>
>   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
>                    from libbpf.c:26:
>   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>    #define EDEADLOCK       58
>
>   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>  * clean up commit description formatting
>
> v2 -> v3: (per Michael Ellerman)
>  * drop indeterminate 'Fixes' tags, request stable backports instead
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h       | 1 +
>  tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>
> +#undef EDEADLOCK
>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>
>  #undef EDEADLOCK
> diff --git a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> +++ b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>
> +#undef EDEADLOCK
>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>
>  #undef EDEADLOCK
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Michael Ellerman]

Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Michael,
>
> The latest version of this patch addressed all feedback I'm aware of
> when submitted last September, and I've seen no further comments from
> reviewers since then.
>
> Could you please let me know where this stands and if anything further
> is needed?

Sorry, it's still sitting in my inbox :/

I was going to reply to suggest we split the tools change out. The
headers under tools are usually updated by another maintainer, I think
it might even be scripted.

Anyway I've applied your patch and done that (dropped the change to
tools/.../errno.h), which should also mean the stable backport is more
likely to work automatically.

It will hit mainline in v5.13-rc1 and then be backported to the stable
trees.

I don't think you actually need the tools version of the header updated
to fix your bug? In which case we can probably just wait for it to be
updated automatically when the tools headers are sync'ed with the kernel
versions.

cheers


> On Thu, 17 Sept 2020 at 06:54, Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
>> EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
>> errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
>> include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
>> not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
>> value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
>>
>> Guard against these redefinitions to avoid build errors like the following,
>> first seen cross-compiling libbpf v5.8.9 for powerpc using GCC 8.4.0 with
>> musl 1.1.24:
>>
>>   In file included from ../../arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h:5,
>>                    from ../../include/linux/err.h:8,
>>                    from libbpf.c:29:
>>   ../../include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h:40: error: "EDEADLOCK" redefined [-Werror]
>>    #define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK
>>
>>   In file included from toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/errno.h:10,
>>                    from libbpf.c:26:
>>   toolchain-powerpc_8540_gcc-8.4.0_musl/include/bits/errno.h:58: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>>    #define EDEADLOCK       58
>>
>>   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>
>> CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Reported-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> v1 -> v2:
>>  * clean up commit description formatting
>>
>> v2 -> v3: (per Michael Ellerman)
>>  * drop indeterminate 'Fixes' tags, request stable backports instead
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h       | 1 +
>>  tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h | 1 +
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>>
>> +#undef EDEADLOCK
>>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>>
>>  #undef EDEADLOCK
>> diff --git a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> index cc79856896a1..4ba87de32be0 100644
>> --- a/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> +++ b/tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
>> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_ERRNO_H
>>
>> +#undef EDEADLOCK
>>  #include <asm-generic/errno.h>
>>
>>  #undef EDEADLOCK
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>

Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Tony Ambardar]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 03:41, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello Michael,
> >
> > The latest version of this patch addressed all feedback I'm aware of
> > when submitted last September, and I've seen no further comments from
> > reviewers since then.
> >
> > Could you please let me know where this stands and if anything further
> > is needed?
>
> Sorry, it's still sitting in my inbox :/
>
> I was going to reply to suggest we split the tools change out. The
> headers under tools are usually updated by another maintainer, I think
> it might even be scripted.
>
> Anyway I've applied your patch and done that (dropped the change to
> tools/.../errno.h), which should also mean the stable backport is more
> likely to work automatically.
>
> It will hit mainline in v5.13-rc1 and then be backported to the stable
> trees.
>
> I don't think you actually need the tools version of the header updated
> to fix your bug? In which case we can probably just wait for it to be
> updated automatically when the tools headers are sync'ed with the kernel
> versions.
>
> cheers

I appreciate the follow up. My original bug was indeed with the tools
header but is being patched locally, so waiting for those headers to
sync with the kernel versions is fine if it simplifies things overall.

Thanks,
Tony

Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:54:37 -0700, Tony Ambardar wrote:
> A few archs like powerpc have different errno.h values for macros
> EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. In code including both libc and linux versions of
> errno.h, this can result in multiple definitions of EDEADLOCK in the
> include chain. Definitions to the same value (e.g. seen with mips) do
> not raise warnings, but on powerpc there are redefinitions changing the
> value, which raise warnings and errors (if using "-Werror").
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc: fix EDEADLOCK redefinition error in uapi/asm/errno.h
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7de21e679e6a789f3729e8402bc440b623a28eae

cheers