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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: PowerPC build fail
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:04:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227200453.GB3215@eros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r32jrka2.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:38:13PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Hi Tobin,
> 
> "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc> writes:
> > The current (2bfe01e) torvalds git tree fails to build on powerpc64. Build machine
> > is virtualized.
> >
> > - Build error
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c: In function ‘running_clock’:
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:712:25: error: implicit declaration of function ‘cputime_to_nsecs’
> >    return local_clock() - cputime_to_nsecs(kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]);
> >                           ^
> ...
> >
> > If you think this can be fixed with the *little* kernel dev knowledge
> > I have please point me at a starting place and I will dig into it.
> 
> Thanks for trying to fix it.
> 
> You got unlucky and pulled Linus' tree just after a cleanup series was
> merged, but before all the bugs had been shaken out.

Au contraire, I felt lucky to have bumped into a bug. I would like to
find more :)

Tobin

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-27 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-22  1:22 PowerPC build fail Tobin C. Harding
2017-02-22  2:46 ` Andrew Donnellan
2017-02-27 10:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-27 20:04   ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2017-02-28  3:42     ` Michael Ellerman

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