The patch titled Subject: ksm: validate STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD conditional to gcc version has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ksm: validate STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD conditional to gcc version BUILD_BUG_ON can only validate this successfully on recent gcc. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/ksm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/ksm.c~ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3 mm/ksm.c --- a/mm/ksm.c~ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3 +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -629,8 +629,10 @@ static void remove_node_from_stable_tree * from &migrate_nodes. This will verify that future list.h changes * don't break STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD. */ +#if GCC_VERSION >= 40903 /* only recent gcc can handle it */ BUILD_BUG_ON(STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD <= &migrate_nodes); BUILD_BUG_ON(STABLE_NODE_DUP_HEAD >= &migrate_nodes + 1); +#endif if (stable_node->head == &migrate_nodes) list_del(&stable_node->list); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit.patch ksm-introduce-ksm_max_page_sharing-per-page-deduplication-limit-fix-3.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html