syscall statx not implemented on powerpc

[Chris Packham]

On 13/03/17 21:52, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> On Monday, March 13, 2017 03:33:07 AM Chris Packham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just attempted to build a powerpc kernel from 4.11-rc2 using a
>> custom defconfig (available on request) and I'm hitting the following
>> error in the early stages of compilation.
>>
>> <stdin>:1325:2: error: #warning syscall statx not implemented [-Werror=cpp]
>>
>> Same thing seems to happen with mpc85xx_basic_defconfig.
>>
>> I don't actually need this syscall so I'd be happy to turn something off
>> to get things building. I did a quick search and couldn't see anything
>> on linuxppc-dev but google keeps correcting "statx" to "stats" so I
>> could have missed it.
>>
>
> The upstream commit
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a528d35e8bfcc521d7cb70aaf03e1bd296c8493f)
> that introduces the statx syscall provides a test program. I will wire-up the
> syscall on ppc64, run that test program and post the patch if the test program
> works well.
>

Thanks, I'd be happy to test a patch here.

In the meantime I worked around the build issue by adding __INGORE_statx 
to checksyscalls.sh.