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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:32:26 +0200
From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemtrace: fix build breakage in befs
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:15:13AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:51 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > > > there's another build problem as well, in squashfs, and in key.h:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  include/linux/key.h:128: error: field 'sem' has incomplete type
> > > > > >  fs/squashfs/export.c:133: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc'
> > > > > >  fs/squashfs/export.c:143: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree'
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > And i suspect there's more as well. Is there really no unintrusive 
> > > > > > way to solve this - or do you think the RCU change reduces the 
> > > > > > include file spaghetti?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't think there is and yes, I do think the RCU change cleans 
> > > > > up things as well.
> > > > 
> > > > Okay. Note, you'll have to test tip:tracing/kmemtrace explicitly as 
> > > > i had to exclude it from tip:master due to test failures. Will put 
> > > > it back in once fixes arrive :)
> > > 
> > > That's what I am testing right now. It's just that I am working on 
> > > an old laptop where building the kernel takes a looong time.... 
> > > :-)
> > 
> > ok - let me help then.
> > 
> > On (64-bit) allyesconfig there's 5 distinct build failures:
> >  
> > include/linux/key.h:128: error: field ???sem??? has incomplete type
> > distcc[22541] ERROR: compile security/keys/sysctl.c on a/16 failed
> > 
> > lib/decompress_bunzip2.c:636: error: implicit declaration of function ???kmalloc???
> > lib/decompress_bunzip2.c:726: error: implicit declaration of function ???kfree???
> > 
> > In file included from include/keys/user-type.h:16,
> >                  from fs/cifs/cifs_spnego.c:25:
> > include/linux/key.h:128: error: field ???sem??? has incomplete type
> > distcc[3226] ERROR: compile fs/cifs/cifs_spnego.c on ph/16 failed
> > 
> > lib/decompress_inflate.c:45: error: implicit declaration of function ???kmalloc???
> > lib/decompress_inflate.c:154: error: implicit declaration of function ???kfree???
> > 
> > lib/decompress_unlzma.c:122: error: implicit declaration of function ???kfree???
> > lib/decompress_unlzma.c:551: error: implicit declaration of function ???kmalloc???
> > 
> > You should be able to reproduce them (on 32-bit too) one by one via:
> > 
> >   make lib/decompress_unlzma.o
> > 
> > etc. - without having to redo the full allyesconfig. (i'll redo that 
> > after the fixes, to flush out remaining/dependent bugs)
> 
> OK, I think all of them are now fixed. I haven't yet been able to
> complete a build so help is still appreciated. ;-)
> 
> 			Pekka

Gosh, what have I done?! oO

As far as I can see (or I hope so), it isn't really my fault the
original authors didn't use headers in a semantically-consistent way.

Pekka, thanks a lot for helping with this.


	Eduard

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