Subject: Re: linux-next: percpu/tip tree build failure

From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:05:11 +0100

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:25:15PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:86: error: 'task_bp_pinned' redeclared as different kind of symbol
> kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:55: note: previous declaration of 'task_bp_pinned' was here
> kernel/hw_breakpoint.c: In function 'toggle_bp_task_slot':
> kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:165: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Caused by commit dd17c8f72993f9461e9c19250e3f155d6d99df22 ("percpu:
> remove per_cpu__ prefix") from the percpu tree interacting with commit
> 56053170ea2a2c0dc17420e9b94aa3ca51d80408 ("hw-breakpoints: Fix task-bound
> breakpoint slot allocation") from the tip tree.
> 
> I have applied the following patch for today (and can carry it as
> necessary:
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:19:48 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] percpu: make per_cpu variable name unique in hw_breakpoint.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>

Doh!

Thanks Stephen.

Ingo, can you queue up this patch?

Thanks.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email-masked]>