From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 00:40:12 +0100 Subject: nommu build failures on ARM in linux-next In-Reply-To: <20140529185534.GK3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <5387661F.1050000@windriver.com> <20140529185534.GK3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20140529234012.GL3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:55:34PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:53:51PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > > > The allnoconfig builds in linux-next fail because __clear_cr > > lives in mmu.c without any stub or similar in nommu.c > > > > Introduced by: > > > > commit 247e4fff3aa927ad069447e6da05bb966b70dece > > Author: Russell King > > Date: Sun Apr 13 18:57:29 2014 +0100 > > > > ARM: provide common method to clear bits in CPU control register > > > > Sample failure: > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/11264405/ > > ALIGNMENT_TRAP depends on CPU_CP15_MMU, so it's quite reasonable that > __clear_cr should exist in this case - but it doesn't because it's in > mmu.c. I guess we need __clear_cr moved to arch/arm/kernel/setup.c. I've been looking at doing this, and while it can be done by applying a patch on top, that's not my preferred solution. However, my preferred solution (which is to fix the commit) needs a bit of rework of the patch series, and given the number of patches I'm carrying right now, I'm just going to drop the branch out of linux-next and hold it off until the following merge window instead. Even so, I suspect even with this build problem solved, that's not going to be the end of the story for noMMU breakage... it's certainly something that gets very little testing by anyone. I suspect it should be removed from the mainline kernel tree rather than being a constant source of these kinds of problems. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly improving, and getting towards what was expected from it.