From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
To: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "R.T.Dickinson" <rtd2@xtra.co.nz>,
hypexed@yahoo.com.au, mad skateman <madskateman@gmail.com>,
Christian Zigotzky <info@xenosoft.de>
Subject: Re: [Linux PPC] 7.0-rc1: e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *'
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:38:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2536c3e7-18d2-47cb-88c6-36f94c61c1c6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d2d4735-04e0-46a0-93c6-654507fe2ae1@kernel.org>
Le 23/02/2026 à 19:07, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) a écrit :
> +Kees
>
> Hello,
>
> Le 23/02/2026 à 17:48, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> Compiling issue for e5500 machines for the RC1 of kernel 7.0:
>>
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c: In function 'kvmppc_e500_tlb_init':
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct
>> tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [-
>> Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>> 923 | vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
>> | ^
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:928:26: error: assignment to 'struct
>> tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [-
>> Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>> 928 | vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
>>
>> Temporary solution: # CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION is not set
>>
>> Please solve this issue.
>>
>
> Must be one of:
>
> 189f164e573e Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses
> bf4afc53b77a Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default
> GFP_KERNEL argument
> 69050f8d6d07 treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar
> types
>
Can you try following change:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
index 48580c85f23b..75ed1496ead5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
@@ -920,12 +920,12 @@ int kvmppc_e500_tlb_init(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500
*vcpu_e500)
vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[0] = 0;
vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[1] = KVM_E500_TLB0_SIZE;
- vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
+ vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv,
vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[0].entries);
if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0])
goto free_vcpu;
- vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
+ vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv,
vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[1].entries);
if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1])
goto free_vcpu;
---
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-23 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-14 14:02 [Linux PPC] KVM PR and KVM HV do not work if the kernel was compiled with PREEMPT Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-17 5:02 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-17 8:52 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-17 9:03 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-17 9:44 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-17 10:17 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2026-02-17 10:26 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-17 11:34 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-21 5:30 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-23 3:45 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-23 16:48 ` [Linux PPC] 7.0-rc1: e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-23 18:07 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-23 19:38 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) [this message]
2026-02-23 22:40 ` Kees Cook
2026-02-24 6:30 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-24 7:18 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-25 5:54 ` [Linux PPC] Disable PREEMPT Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-25 6:23 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-02-25 7:16 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-25 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-26 5:37 ` Christian Zigotzky
2026-02-26 13:24 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
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