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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 - Build Failure on powerpc timerfd() undeclared
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:32:07 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Kernel build fails, with build error
> >
> >   CC      arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.o
> > In file included from arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c:49:
> > include/asm/systbl.h:312: error: ‘sys_timerfd’ undeclared here (not in a function)
> > make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell] Error 2
> > make: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms] Error 2
> >
>
> I guess all architectures except x86 are currently broken because they
> reference the old sys_timerfd function.

None of them were broken in my testing and I'm unsure why powerpc broke
here.

> This patch should add the missing
> bits to powerpc.
>

Because the patches in -mm left the stubs in place in sys_ni.c and powerpc
_should_ have (incorrectly) picked those up.

Odd.

>
> ---
>
> Disclaimer: Not tested at all, just applied common sense.
> Disclaimer2: conflicts with the sys_indirect kernel implementation
> sent by paulus last week.
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h b/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> index 11d5383..b029368 100644
> --- a/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h
> @@ -309,7 +309,9 @@ SYSCALL_SPU(getcpu)
> COMPAT_SYS(epoll_pwait)
> COMPAT_SYS_SPU(utimensat)
> COMPAT_SYS_SPU(signalfd)
> -COMPAT_SYS_SPU(timerfd)
> +COMPAT_SYS_SPU(timerfd_create)
> SYSCALL_SPU(eventfd)
> COMPAT_SYS_SPU(sync_file_range2)
> COMPAT_SYS(fallocate)
> +COMPAT_SYS_SPU(sys_timerfd_settime)
> +COMPAT_SYS_SPU(sys_timerfd_gettime)
> diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h b/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h
> index 97d82b6..4ba2d20 100644
> --- a/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h
> +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h
> @@ -328,14 +328,16 @@
> #define __NR_epoll_pwait 303
> #define __NR_utimensat 304
> #define __NR_signalfd 305
> -#define __NR_timerfd 306
> +#define __NR_timerfd_create 306
> #define __NR_eventfd 307
> #define __NR_sync_file_range2 308
> #define __NR_fallocate 309
> +#define __NR_sys_timerfd_settime 310
> +#define __NR_sys_timerfd_gettime 311
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>
> -#define __NR_syscalls 310
> +#define __NR_syscalls 312
>
> #define __NR__exit __NR_exit
> #define NR_syscalls __NR_syscalls


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