Re: [kbuild-all] Re: undefined reference to `node_data'

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri 25-03-22 11:40:37, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/25/2022 09:16 AM, Chen, Rong A wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/24/2022 8:40 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 24-03-22 10:04:43, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:46:59PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > > > > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> > > > > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >     mips64-linux-ld: mm/page_alloc.o: in function `free_area_init':
> > > > > > > > > (.init.text+0x1680): undefined reference to `node_data'
> > > > > > >     mips64-linux-ld: (.init.text+0x1690): undefined reference to
> > > > > > > `node_data'
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > OK, I can see what is going here. The page allocator normally
> > > > > > uses NODE_DATA but arch_refresh_nodedata refers to node_data directly.
> > > > > > This is a problem with
> > > > > > arch/mips/include/asm/mach-loongson64/mmzone.h:
> > > > > > extern struct pglist_data *__node_data[];
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > #define NODE_DATA(n)            (__node_data[n])
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Unfortunately we cannot use NODE_DATA there because of header
> > > > > > inclusion
> > > > > > ordering. I will think about a solution.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there any reason why (some?) MIPS arches use __node_data rather than
> > > > > node_data as most other architectures? Would it be acceptable to do the
> > > > > renaming? It would help to cover the above compilation problem because
> > > > > arch_refresh_nodedata could keep using node_data directly.
> > > > 
> > > > I've just checked history and I don't see a reason for __node_data.
> > > > So I'm fine with changing it to node_data.
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot for double checking Thomas! This is a dump&simple sed over
> > > mips file. 0-day guys, could you give it a try please?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > It returns another error:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think the following patch should fix the build error
> "undefined reference to `node_data'":
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=f8f9f21c7848

Thanks that looks much better than my renaming patch. Thanks a lot.
FWIW
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



[Index of Archives]     [LKML Archive]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Git]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Hams]

  Powered by Linux