This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: Fix building error on MIPS to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bcache-fix-building-error-on-mips.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cf33c1ee5254c6a430bc1538232b49c3ea13e613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:14:25 -0800 Subject: bcache: Fix building error on MIPS From: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cf33c1ee5254c6a430bc1538232b49c3ea13e613 upstream. This patch try to fix the building error on MIPS. The reason is MIPS has already defined the PTR macro, which conflicts with the PTR macro in include/uapi/linux/bcache.h. [fixed by mlyle: corrected a line-length issue] Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/extents.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/bcache.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ int __bch_bucket_alloc_set(struct cache_ if (b == -1) goto err; - k->ptr[i] = PTR(ca->buckets[b].gen, + k->ptr[i] = MAKE_PTR(ca->buckets[b].gen, bucket_to_sector(c, b), ca->sb.nr_this_dev); --- a/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static bool bch_extent_merge(struct btre return false; for (i = 0; i < KEY_PTRS(l); i++) - if (l->ptr[i] + PTR(0, KEY_SIZE(l), 0) != r->ptr[i] || + if (l->ptr[i] + MAKE_PTR(0, KEY_SIZE(l), 0) != r->ptr[i] || PTR_BUCKET_NR(b->c, l, i) != PTR_BUCKET_NR(b->c, r, i)) return false; --- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static void journal_reclaim(struct cache continue; ja->cur_idx = next; - k->ptr[n++] = PTR(0, + k->ptr[n++] = MAKE_PTR(0, bucket_to_sector(c, ca->sb.d[ja->cur_idx]), ca->sb.nr_this_dev); } --- a/include/uapi/linux/bcache.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bcache.h @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ PTR_FIELD(PTR_GEN, 0, 8) #define PTR_CHECK_DEV ((1 << PTR_DEV_BITS) - 1) -#define PTR(gen, offset, dev) \ +#define MAKE_PTR(gen, offset, dev) \ ((((__u64) dev) << 51) | ((__u64) offset) << 8 | gen) /* Bkey utility code */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/bcache-fix-building-error-on-mips.patch