Re: [PATCH] fix build error when CONFIG_SWAP is not set

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 02:42:05 EST


> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> mips:
>
> In file included from arch/mips/include/asm/tlb.h:21,
> from mm/pgtable-generic.c:9:
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function `tlb_flush_mmu':
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h:76: error: implicit declaration of function `release_pages'
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function `tlb_remove_page':
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h:105: error: implicit declaration of function `page_cache_release'
>
> free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() are macros
> which call release_pages() and page_cache_release(). The obvious fix is
> to include pagemap.h in swap.h, where those macros are defined. But that
> breaks sparc for weird reasons.
>
> So fix it within mm/pgtable-generic.c instead.
>
> Reported-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have succesfully build sparc32 allnoconfig + defconfig with this patch.
Can you expand the changelog to specify that this fixes sparc32 allnoconfig
as well?

Consider it:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sam
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