[PATCH 5/7] iommu: supress loff_t compilation error on powerpc

[Bhushan Bharat-R65777]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:10 PM
> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> Cc: joro at 8bytes.org; benh at kernel.crashing.org; galak at kernel.crashing.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; linux-
> pci at vger.kernel.org; agraf at suse.de; Wood Scott-B07421; iommu at lists.linux-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] iommu: supress loff_t compilation error on powerpc
> 
> On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 12:59 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c
> > b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c
> > index 210db24..8a8156a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c
> > @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ ssize_t vfio_pci_vga_rw(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev, char
> __user *buf,
> >  			       size_t count, loff_t *ppos, bool iswrite)  {
> >  	int ret;
> > -	loff_t off, pos = *ppos & VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK;
> > +	loff_t off;
> > +	u64 pos = (u64 )(*ppos & VFIO_PCI_OFFSET_MASK);
> >  	void __iomem *iomem = NULL;
> >  	unsigned int rsrc;
> >  	bool is_ioport;
> 
> What's the compile error that this fixes?

I was getting below error; and after some googling I came to know that this is how it is fixed by other guys.

/home/r65777/linux-vfio/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c:193: undefined reference to `__cmpdi2'
/home/r65777/linux-vfio/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c:193: undefined reference to `__cmpdi2'

Thanks
-Bharat
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