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

Kefeng Wang
2022-12-13T01:34:37Z

Hi, this patch relays on Tony Luck's Patch series "Copy-on-write poison
recovery".[1]
and tested ppc64_defconfig based on next-20221208, it's no build failure

I think it is not very hotfix, also will send v3 to address some comments
we could adjust the patch order in mm tree, thanks.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/50506c8a-71c1-9c68-aa47-7e8dc68a3c52@huawei.com/

On 2022/12/13 6:30, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the mm-hotfixes tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> mm/ksm.c: In function 'ksm_might_need_to_copy':
> mm/ksm.c:2605:21: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_mc_user_highpage'; did you mean 'copy_user_highpage'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 2605 | if (copy_mc_user_highpage(new_page, page, address, vma)) {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | copy_user_highpage
>
> Caused by commit
>
> b7edf4b1cdb1 ("mm: hwpoison: support recovery from ksm_might_need_to_copy()")
>
> I have reverted that commit for today.
>