Re: [PATCH] trivial fix for 2.6.11 raid6 compilation on ppc w/ Altivec

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

olof@austin.ibm.com (Olof Johansson) wrote:
>
> Here's a patch that will work for both PPC and PPC64. The proper way to
>  fix this in mainline is to merge -mm's cpu_has_feature patch, but for
>  the stable 2.6.11-series, this much less intrusive (i.e. just the pure
>  bugfix, not the cleanup part).
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
> 
> 
>  Index: linux-2.5/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc
>  ===================================================================
>  --- linux-2.5.orig/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc	2005-03-03 16:46:47.000000000 -0600
>  +++ linux-2.5/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc	2005-03-03 16:48:03.000000000 -0600
>  @@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ int raid6_have_altivec(void);
>   int raid6_have_altivec(void)
>   {
>   	/* This assumes either all CPUs have Altivec or none does */
>  +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>  +	return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
>  +#else
>   	return cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
>  +#endif
>   }
>   #endif

This patch doesn't seem right - current 2.6.11 has:

        return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;

So anyway, I fixed it up as:

--- 25/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc~ppc-raid6-altivec-build-fix	2005-03-03 17:56:21.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/raid6altivec.uc	2005-03-03 17:57:50.000000000 -0800
@@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ int raid6_have_altivec(void);
 int raid6_have_altivec(void)
 {
 	/* This assumes either all CPUs have Altivec or none does */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	return cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
+#else
+	return cur_cpu_spec[0]->cpu_features & CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC;
+#endif
 }
 #endif
 
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I'll assume that the above is suitable as a temp thing and I'll fix up
ppc-ppc64-abstract-cpu_feature-checks.patch