Re: [ 00/17] 3.4.58-stable review

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 08/15/2013 12:55 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> I screwed up my stable repo clone again :(, so the full build will take a
>> bit.
>>
>> mips builds on on 3.4 with all patches applied now fail with:
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h: Assembler messages:
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:178: Error: Unrecognized opcode `static inline
>> int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)'
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:179: Error: junk at end of line, first
>> unrecognized character is `{'
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:181: Error: Unrecognized opcode `extern
>> unsigned long max_mapnr'
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:183: Error: Unrecognized opcode `return
>> pfn>=ARCH_PFN_OFFSET&&pfn<max_mapnr'
>> arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:184: Error: junk at end of line, first
>> unrecognized character is `}'
>>
>> This is the error I referred to above. Reverting above pfn rework patch
>> fixes that problem,
>> so you might want to remove that patch from the patch queue for now.
>
> Perhaps this one got applied too soon?
>
>   commit 730b8dfe016dd1e91f73d8d3e6724da91397171c
> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Date:   Fri Dec 28 15:18:02 2012 +0100
>
>      MIPS: page.h: Remove now unnecessary #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ wrapper.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>

Actually, you are on the right track, only in the opposite direction.
The problem is that commit 8b9232141b changed
	#define pfn_valid ...
to
	static inline pfn_valid()
in arch/mips/include/asm/page.h. In the 3.4 kernel the file _is_
still included from assembler code. This obviously doesn't work.

Fix would be to surround the new static inline function with #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__.
With this change, "mips allmodconfig" compiles with the 3.4 kernel.
It should be a safe change, since the static inline will never be used
from assembler code.

Question is if that would be acceptable as back-port of 8b9232141b to 3.4.
Greg, any comments ? If it is ok I can submit a back-port request with
the modified patch to -stable. That would be one more build fixed,
three to go (arm:allmodconfig, sparc32:defconfig, and sparc64:allmodconfig).

Thanks,
Guenter