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

Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-10T15:18:44Z

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:03:57AM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On 12/10/2014 03:09 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > After merging the rcu tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc64
> > allnoconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > In file included from arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h:30:0,
> > from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:68:
> > include/linux/kvm_host.h:366:21: error: field 'srcu' has incomplete type
> > struct srcu_struct srcu;
> > ^
> > include/linux/kvm_host.h:367:21: error: field 'irq_srcu' has incomplete type
> > struct srcu_struct irq_srcu;
> > ^
> >
> > Presumably caused by commit 6e8ef258b669 ("srcu: Isolate srcu sections
> > using CONFIG_SRCU").
> >
> > I have reverted that commit again for today - more work required ...
> >
>
> Looks like there are other places which use KVM unconditionally. I will try to look and fix such uses.
>
> Paul, can you drop the patch until then? Thanks!

Done!

Thanx, Paul