On 12/06/2017 07:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > >> This changes the type to u64 in the architecture-independent dummy, >> and to pteval_t in the x86 specific portion that is used when KAISER >> is enabled, ensuring that the flags can always fit. Unfortunately, >> pteval_t is not provided by most other architectures, so we are >> a little bit inconsistent here. > > I ran into a new regression with my patch applied, after doing more randconfig > builds: > > In file included from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/kaiser.h:5, > from /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c:4: > arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h:34:10: error: unknown type name > 'pteval_t'; did you mean 'dev_t'? > > Maybe it's better to just to the last one-line change in > include/linux/kaiser.h.
Hi Arnd, Are you hitting this in -next? The newest version of this code has a single kpti_init() function that shouldn't have any of these problems.
