Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

Hugh Dickins
2016-04-07T05:24:45Z

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from include/linux/linkage.h:4:0,
> from include/linux/fs.h:4,
> from mm/shmem.c:24:
> In function 'shmem_disband_hugeteam',
> inlined from 'shmem_getpage_gfp' at mm/shmem.c:3075:3:
> include/linux/compiler.h:510:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_1747' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed
> _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
> ^
> include/linux/compiler.h:493:4: note: in definition of macro '__compiletime_assert'
> prefix ## suffix(); \
> ^
> include/linux/compiler.h:510:2: note: in expansion of macro '_compiletime_assert'
> _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
> ^
> include/linux/bug.h:51:37: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert'
> #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg)
> ^
> include/linux/bug.h:85:21: note: in expansion of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG'
> #define BUILD_BUG() BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(1, "BUILD_BUG failed")
> ^
> mm/shmem.c:1747:2: note: in expansion of macro 'BUILD_BUG'
> BUILD_BUG();
> ^
>
> Caused by commit
>
> ab61a0a665d8 ("huge tmpfs: try to allocate huge pages, split into a team")
>
> I added the following (hacky, but builds for my compiler at least)
> patch for today:

Sorry about that, thanks a lot Stephen, your patch will do fine (though
what I'll do is simply delete that BUILD_BUG(), which isn't really
serving any useful purpose). It certainly has been compiled before
on arm and without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, but I guess different
compiler versions make different optimizations, so I never noticed I
was unwittingly relying on too sophisticated an optimization there.

Hugh

>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 14:57:45 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] huge tmpfs: fix build problem on arm
>
> allocated_huge will never be non-NULL if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is not.
>
> Fixes: ab61a0a665d8 ("huge tmpfs: try to allocate huge pages, split into a team")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
> mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 5b9fecc9ce72..f2307d9630aa 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -3071,7 +3071,7 @@ unlock:
> unlock_page(page);
> put_page(page);
> }
> - if (alloced_huge) {
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && alloced_huge) {
> shmem_disband_hugeteam(alloced_huge);
> alloced_huge = NULL;
> }
> --