From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Down Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:47:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: Depend on non-static printk for cmpxchg debug Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com + akpm, linux-mm Hey folks, Chris Down writes: >With !CONFIG_PRINTK, printk() is static in the header, but ia64's >cmpxchg.h with CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_CMPXCHG doesn't take this into account >before trying to use it as extern, resulting in a compiler error: > > ./include/linux/printk.h:219:5: error: static declaration of 'printk' follows non-static declaration > 219 | int printk(const char *s, ...) > | ^~~~~~ > ./arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h:142:14: note: previous declaration of 'printk' was here > 142 | extern int printk(const char *fmt, ...); \ > | ^~~~~~ > >Make CONFIG_IA64_DEBUG_CMPXCHG dependent on CONFIG_PRINTK to avoid this. > >Signed-off-by: Chris Down >Reported-by: kernel test robot >Cc: Tony Luck >Cc: Fenghua Yu >Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org I now see that last month ia64 was marked as orphaned, so I'm going to send this over to Andrew/-mm. Andrew, any chance you can take this in your tree? It's causing spurious LKP noise for some recent work on printk and would be great to have in -next. Thanks, Chris >--- > arch/ia64/Kconfig.debug | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/ia64/Kconfig.debug >index 40ca23bd228d..2ce008e2d164 100644 >--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig.debug >+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig.debug >@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ config DISABLE_VHPT > > config IA64_DEBUG_CMPXCHG > bool "Turn on compare-and-exchange bug checking (slow!)" >- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL >+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK > help > Selecting this option turns on bug checking for the IA-64 > compare-and-exchange instructions. This is slow! Itaniums >-- >2.30.1 >