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

Pranith Kumar
2014-12-10T15:03:52Z

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!
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Pranith