On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 06:50:10PM +0000, Atish Patra wrote: > On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 23:11 +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote: > > RISC-V build breaks on stable-rc 5.7 branch. > > build failed with gcc-8, gcc-9 and gcc-9. > > > > Sorry for the compilation issue. > > mmap_read_lock was intrdouced in the following commit. > > commit 9740ca4e95b4 > Author: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com> > Date: Mon Jun 8 21:33:14 2020 -0700 > > mmap locking API: initial implementation as rwsem wrappers > > The following two commits replaced the usage of mmap_sem rwsem calls > with mmap_lock. > > d8ed45c5dcd4 (mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem > rwsem call sites) > 89154dd5313f (mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem call sites missed by > coccinelle) > > The first commit is not present in stale 5.7-y for obvious reasons. > > Do we need to send a separate patch only for stable branch with > mmap_sem ? I am not sure if that will cause a conflict again in future.
I do not like taking odd backports, and would rather take the real patch that is upstream. I will drop this patch from the tree now, so everyone can figure out what they want to do in the future :) thanks, greg k-h
