From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 12 May 2008 18:36:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:59093 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20030609AbYELRf6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 18:35:58 +0100 Received: from root (helo=closure.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jvbyb-00045P-Fx; Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:17 -0400 Received: from tytso by closure.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jvbw2-00053v-5I; Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:38 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Dmitri Vorobiev Cc: Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext4dev build failure on mips: "empty_zero_page" undefined 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <90edad820805120814l7ee3f5d3h7f9939854bccf0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 19226 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tytso@mit.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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