On 06/28/2017 02:04 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Jens, > > After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc > allnoconfig) failed like this: > > fs/fcntl.o: In function `do_fcntl': > fcntl.c:(.text+0x6d4): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad' > fcntl.c:(.text+0x730): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad' > > Probably caused by commit > > c75b1d9421f8 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints") > > On powerpc (at least) you cannot use get_user() to fetch anything larger > than "unsigned long" i.e. 32 bits on 32 bit powerpc. > > This has been discussed before (and, I think, a fix attempted). Gah, thanks for letting me know. I'll test your patch and queue it up to fix this issue. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html