powerpc: allmod config build failure

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Wed Jan 6 00:10:20 EST 2010


On 01/05/2010 03:03 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 05.01.2010, at 04:32, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The powerpc allmodconfig build of Linus' tree has been failing like this
>> since Dec 13 (and linux-next since Nov 7):
>>
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/built-in.o:(.toc1+0x18): undefined reference to `kvm_debugfs_dir'
>>
>> $ grep KVM .config
>> CONFIG_KVM=y
>> CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER=y
>> CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64=m
>> CONFIG_KVM_EXIT_TIMING=y
>>
>> I assume that this failure was introduced by commit
>> c4f9c779f1019c7d5c61961a7c0aaaf1420d8f90 ("Include Book3s_64 target in
>> buildsystem").
>>      
> Yes, and the fix is in Avi's tree already (1231730604360801d4e648c37c4b98f30850e001).
> I'm not sure how the syncing of those two happens - let's ask him.
>    

Marcelo and myself collect such patches in a branch (kvm.git 
kvm-updates/2.6.33) and push them to Linus.  This week it's Marcelo's turn.

When sending a patch that fixes upstream (or -stable) breakage, please 
not it explicitly, and we'll queue it when applying.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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