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SubjectRe: [PATCH stable-only] virtio-net: fix build on m68k and sparc64
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:36:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > As a result of backporting a bugfix, virtio_net started passing void *
>> > to page_address, assuming that it will get silently converted to struct
>> > page *. But this does not happen on architectures where page_address is
>> > a macro, the result is build failure as the macro tries to dereference
>> > void*.
>> >
>> > Fix by reordering code slightly, so we always pass
>> > struct page * to page_address.
>>
>> Thanks for the clue! I was just investigating a similar failure in -next.
>>
>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>
>> Geert
>
> You don't mean linux-next? And not in virtio-net? I don't see page_address
> being used on void * anywhere there.

http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/10469287/

I'm making {,set}page_address() static inline to fix this.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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