Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/kdump: Add missing optional dummy functions

[Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:25:51 -0800
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:01:57AM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:  
> > > If KEXEC_CORE is not enabled, PowerNV builds fail as follows.
> > >
> > > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c: In function 'pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self':
> > > arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c:236:4: error:
> > >         implicit declaration of function 'crash_ipi_callback'
> > >
> > > Add dummy function calls, similar to kdump_in_progress(), to solve the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4145f358644b ("powernv/kdump: Fix cases where the kdump kernel ...")
> > > Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > > Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > ---  
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this.
> > 
> > You've added two functions, I understand the crash_send_ipi() bits
> > that I broke. Looks like crash_ipi_callback broken without KEXEC_CORE?
> >   
> 
> If I recall correctly, 4145f358644b introduced the call to crash_ipi_callback().
> After I declared the dummy function for that, I got an error about the missing
> crash_send_ipi(). I didn't spend more time on it but just added another dummy
> function. It may well be that another problem was introduced in the same time
> frame. On the other side, maybe I got it all wrong, and my patch is not worth
> the computer it was written on.
> 

The patches worked for me with CONFIG_KEXEC=n and CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n

Tested-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>

Balbir Singh