From: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It seems that forward declaration couldn't work well with typedef, use struct spinlock directly to avoiding following build errors: In file included from include/linux/spinlock.h:81, from include/linux/seqlock.h:35, from include/linux/time.h:5, from include/uapi/linux/timex.h:56, from include/linux/timex.h:56, from include/linux/sched.h:17, from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:17: include/linux/spinlock_types.h:76: error: redefinition of typedef 'spinlock_t' /root/linux-next/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h:563: note: previous declaration of 'spinlock_t' was here build fix for upstream SHA1: b3084f4db3aeb991c507ca774337c7e7893ed04f for 3.13 stable series Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h index d27960c89a71..bc141c950b1e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h @@ -560,9 +560,9 @@ extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp); #define pmd_move_must_withdraw pmd_move_must_withdraw -typedef struct spinlock spinlock_t; -static inline int pmd_move_must_withdraw(spinlock_t *new_pmd_ptl, - spinlock_t *old_pmd_ptl) +struct spinlock; +static inline int pmd_move_must_withdraw(struct spinlock *new_pmd_ptl, + struct spinlock *old_pmd_ptl) { /* * Archs like ppc64 use pgtable to store per pmd -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html