From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263772AbTEFOP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:15:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263773AbTEFOO5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:14:57 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:42631 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263772AbTEFOOU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:14:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16055.50728.288545.718296@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:26:48 +0200 From: mikpe@csd.uu.se To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix x86_64 pte_user() and floppy.h for 2.5.69 In-Reply-To: <20030506142252.GB28449@Wotan.suse.de> References: <16055.49364.106094.795419@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030506142252.GB28449@Wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen writes: > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:04:04PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote: > > Andi, > > > > 2.5.69 failed to link on x86_64 due to a missing reference to pte_user(). > > I simply stole the one that i386 added in .68 -> .69. > > There's also irqreturn_t warnings on floppy.h -- fixed also by syncing > > with i386' floppy.h. > > At least the floppy.h thing is already fixed. > > The pte_user fix is not needed. The correct fix is to change the > #ifdef mm/memory.c checks for. It's broken for most/all > architecture which are not i386 including x86-64. > They have FIXADDR_START, but don't need this check and it's even > wrong to have it. Ah, Ok.