From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero_page" undefined Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20080512173537.GG7029@mit.edu> References: <20080512130604.GA15008@deprecation.cyrius.com> <90edad820805120654n50f7a00cm3c7b4a4f9346d5ea@mail.gmail.com> <20080512143426.GB7029@mit.edu> <20080512145836.GE15866@deprecation.cyrius.com> <90edad820805120814l7ee3f5d3h7f9939854bccf0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitri Vorobiev Return-path: Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:45086 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753996AbYELRfw (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <90edad820805120814l7ee3f5d3h7f9939854bccf0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:14:23PM +0400, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > > It was April 29th 2008 when commit > 093a088b76352e0a6fdca84eb78b3aa65fbe6dd1 where the ext4_ext_zeroout() > routine was introduced (it is this routine that makes use of the > ZERO_PAGE macro expanding to an expression that contains a reference > to the empty_zero_page global symbol). After this commit, the patches > similar to the one found in this thread were made for several > architectures. Apparently, MIPS has been overlooked. > Yeah, I guess no one is currently doing test builds of linux-next on the mips architecture. It's likely Stephen Rothwell doesn't have access to one. (The patch itself has been around for a while, both in the -mm tree, the ext4 patches, and in Linux-next.) - Ted