Re: [next] nfs update breaks build on sparc

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Trond Myklebust
<trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> New breakage seen in linux-next today:
>>
>> ERROR: "__xchg_called_with_bad_pointer" [fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/nfs_layout_flexfiles.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer" [fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/nfs_layout_flexfiles.ko] undefined!
>> make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
>>
>> I tried to reproduce it locally so I could run a bisect,
>> but it must be toolchain specific because I don't see it.
>>
>
> Sigh. It looks as if xchg() and cmpxchg() are not available for 64-bit
> integers on sparc32.
> Tao, can we rely on mirror->lock to provide atomicity here instead?
>
yes, we can. It is already under mirror->lock. So we just need to open
code xchg/cmpxchg(). I'll send a patch to fix it.

Cheers,
Tao
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