Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2

Michal Piotrowski
2006-08-07T12:16:07Z

Hi,

On 07/08/06, Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 06/08/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I get this error during the build.
> >
> > kernel/built-in.o: In function `bacct_add_tsk':
> > /usr/src/linux-mm/kernel/tsacct.c:39: undefined reference to `__divdi3'
> > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > make: *** [_all] Error 2
> >
> > I'll try with CONFIG_TASKSTATS disabled.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michal
> >
>
> Sounds likes we are trying to do a 64 bit division since timespec_to_ns()
> returns a 64 bit value.
>
> Here's a compile tested patch to fix the problem
>

It doesn't apply
cat patches/tsacct1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run
patching file kernel/tsacct.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 36.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/tsacct.c.rej

Andrew's csa-basic-accounting-over-taskstats-fix.patch fix compilation problem.

> --
> Regards,
> Balbir Singh,
> Linux Technology Center,
> IBM Software Labs
>

Regards,
Michal

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