Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Jun 26 2017 - 17:48:15 EST


Hi Michal,

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:13:46 +0200 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon 26-06-17 16:53:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (sparc64 defconfig)
> > failed like this:
> >
> > arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_kmalloc':
> > arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:208:48: error: '__GFP_REPEAT' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT);
> > ^
> >
> > Caused by commit
> >
> > 726ad49b664b ("mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic")
> >
> > interacting with commit
> >
> > 0ab2fcd69dbf ("sparc64: mdesc: use __GFP_REPEAT action modifier for VM allocation")
> >
> > from the sparc-next tree.
> >
> > For now I have applied the following (I expect it to be replaced with
> > something better):
>
> You simply want s@__GFP_REPEAT@__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL@

OK, I have replaced the patch with this:

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:47:46 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] paper over the removal of __GFP_REPEAT for now

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index e4b4e790bf89..c9ecd5abf5bf 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static struct mdesc_handle *mdesc_kmalloc(unsigned int mdesc_size)
handle_size = (sizeof(struct mdesc_handle) -
sizeof(struct mdesc_hdr) +
mdesc_size);
- base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT);
+ base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
if (!base)
return NULL;

--
2.11.0

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell