From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemtrace: fix build breakage in befs
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090324095346.GB23208@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237887513.25315.65.camel@penberg-laptop>
* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > > OK, I think all of them are now fixed. I haven't yet been able to
> > > > > complete a build so help is still appreciated. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > unless there's a mail delay, we still have:
> > > >
> > > > lib/decompress_unlzma.c:122: error: implicit declaration of function ‘kfree’
> > > > lib/decompress_unlzma.c:551: error: implicit declaration of function ‘kmalloc’
> > >
> > > Sorry, I missed that. I was testing the .config you sent in the
> > > initial mail, not allyesconfig. I sent you a patch to fix that as
> > > well now.
> >
> > no problem, i missed it too - computer reminded us that it's still
> > there ;-)
> >
> > there's a new headers-export-check failure:
> >
> > /home/mingo/tip/usr/include/linux/bsg.h:11: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
> > /home/mingo/tip/usr/include/linux/fs.h:11: included file 'linux/gfp.h' is not exported
> > make[3]: *** [/home/mingo/tip/usr/include/linux/.check] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [linux] Error 2
> >
> > (CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK)
>
> Hmm, I wonder what is the best way to fix this, though. I think we
> better use macros there (like rest of linux/fs.h) does because of
> dependency issues. What do you think?
>
> Pekka
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index add95da..4dda05d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
>
> #include <linux/limits.h>
> #include <linux/ioctl.h>
> -#include <linux/gfp.h>
>
> /*
> * It's silly to have NR_OPEN bigger than NR_FILE, but you can change
> @@ -2233,15 +2232,8 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
> -static inline char *alloc_secdata(void)
> -{
> - return (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> -}
> -
> -static inline void free_secdata(void *secdata)
> -{
> - free_page((unsigned long)secdata);
> -}
> +#define alloc_secdata() (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL)
> +#define free_secdata() free_page((unsigned long) secdata)
yep, that would be fine - but please add a comment about why they
are macros and what would have to be done to fix it.
(the real fix would be to separate fs.h into fs_types.h and
fs_apis.h - like we did it with spinlock.h. Similarly with slab.h.)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 8:43 Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 8:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 8:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 8:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 8:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 9:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 9:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 9:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24 9:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-24 13:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-24 13:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-24 16:32 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2009-03-24 21:02 ` Ingo Molnar
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