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

Sasha Levin
2015-12-18T15:30:37Z

On 12/17/2015 06:21 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 17/12/2015 at 16:03:44 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote :
>> > Hi Alexandre,
>> >
>> > After merging the rtc tree, today's linux-next build (arm
>> > multi_v7_defconfig) failed like this:
>> >
>> > drivers/built-in.o: In function `rtc_time64_to_tm':
>> > sunxi_sid.c:(.text+0x366e54): undefined reference to `__aeabi_ldivmod'
>> > sunxi_sid.c:(.text+0x366e6c): undefined reference to `__aeabi_ldivmod'
>> >
>> > Caused by commit
>> >
>> > bfad4c280be0 ("rtc: fix overflow and incorrect calculation in rtc_time64_to_tm")
>> >
>> > I have used the rtc tree from next-20151216 for today.
>> >
> Well, the kbuild test robot didn't complain at the time so I assumed
> that it was ok to take the patch but indeed, there are more division
> further in the function.

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened here. Compiler optimizations?

> Sasha, I think I prefer having 32 bit platforms fail on the 21st of
> January 11761191 rather than adding more uses of do_div in the function.
> I'll have a look at the performance impact on 32 bit platforms.

I'm really fine with just adding a WARN_ON() and aborting if it's the year
11761191 :)

Thanks,
Sasha