On Mon 26-06-17 16:53:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> 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@
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> 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 <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
> 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_REPEAT */);
> if (!base)
> return NULL;
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
