On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:02:46 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 10:53 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > > > > On 05/26/2015 10:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 26/05/2015 16:45, Edward Cree wrote: > > >>>> This breaks older compilers that can't initialize anon structures. > > >>>> > > >>>> How old ? Even gcc 3.1 says you can use unnamed struct/union fields and > > >>>> 3.2 is the minimum version required to compile the kernel as mentioned > > >>>> in the README. > > >>>> > > >>>> We could simply just name the structure, but I doubt this is the > > >>>> only place in the kernel code where it's being used this way :) > > >> This appears to be GCC bug #10676, see <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676> > > >> Says it was fixed in 4.6, but I believe the kernel supports GCCs much older > > >> than that (back to 3.2). I personally hit it on 4.4.7, the version shipped > > >> with RHEL6.6. > > > > > > Yes, it will be fixed soon(ish). Probably before you can get rid of the > > > obnoxious disclaimer... :) > > > > It has been fixed by Andrew: > > > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c: work around gcc-4.4.4 bug > > Folks, this fix is missing in both -tip and Linus' (4.1-rc7) tree. At > least I'm running into it. hm, yes, it's in linux-next so I dropped my copy. I'll send it in to Linus today. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
