Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of almost all the trees

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 1:19 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 23:13:07 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 08:06:10 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 7:44 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > It does need to be changed a bit as I realized it depends on a rework of
> > > the Kconfig logic that I had in my randconfig build tree to have a common
> > > page size symbol across architectures. Without my other patch, it also
> > > needs to check for PPC_64K_PAGES.
> > >
> > > Should I send an updated version of the patch?
> >
> > That would be good, thanks.
> >
> > Even better would be to split up the function some how, but having had
> > a bit of a look at it, that may be a much longer job.

Yes, that was my initial conclusion when I looked at the code trying to
redo that loop.

> > I am assuming
> > that allocations (or their failure) are out of the question in that
> > particular function.
>
> Looking again, we probably just need to disable CONFIG_NTFS_RW ...

Ah right, that would work as well. Another possibility would be
to change NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE to 4096, at least in the affected configurations.

According to the documentation I linked to in my commit, file system images
with smaller block sizes should be extremely rare, but I have no idea if the
code would work correctly for normal images after that change.

        Arnd