Re: kmemtrace: kbuild failed to make the new header symlink...

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Jan 19 2009 - 13:26:57 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:40:29PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Sam,
>
> I just did a git pull on linux-2.6-tip, then, on a build
> directory (make O=../build/blkftrace/) with a previous build a tree
> cloned from Linus I got stuck with the messages below.
>
> I could only get this to work after a make mrproper, thought I
> could mention this so that perhaps this can get detected and time be
> saved somehow.
>
> CC arch/x86/mm/fault.o
> /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:38:27: error: asm/kmemcheck.h: No such file or directory
> /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/mm/fault.c: In function âdo_page_faultâ:
> /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:614: error: implicit declaration of function âkmemcheck_activeâ
> /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:615: error: implicit declaration of function âkmemcheck_hideâ
> /home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:644: error: implicit declaration of function âkmemcheck_faultâ
>

The problem is that kmemcheck.h is located in include/asm-x86/ which is wrong.
[Checked master branch at mingo/linux-2.6-x86.git of now.
It should be located in arch/x86/include/asm

I think you see the bug due to a wrong symlink being created.

Anyway that symlink will soon be history - at least when we
have a few more archs that has moved to use arch/$ARCH/include

Sam
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