On 04/08/2015 05:09 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:29:52PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:mips builds fail in -next as follows if PERF_EVENTS is configured. kernel/built-in.o: In function `perf_sample_regs_user': kernel/events/core.c:4828: undefined reference to `perf_get_regs_user' The problem is caused by commit 3478e32c1545 ("MIPS: Add user stack and registers to perf.") in combination with commit 88a7c26af8da ("perf: Move task_pt_regs sampling into arch code"), which introduces perf_get_regs_user(). Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: David Daney <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>I've already applied the same change locally but due to patch ordering constraints I'm considering to temporarily pull this patch until the perf stuff and the remainder of the MIPS changes are in 4.1 or so.
Hi Ralf, Does it hurt to have the function if 88a7c26af8da is not in the tree ? Sure, you'll get a smatch and/or sparse warning, but I would consider that to be less severe than build failures. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
