Subject: Re: linux-next: tracing tree build failure

From: Masami Hiramatsu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:37:19 -0400

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c: In function 'trampoline_handler':
> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:697: error: 'struct pt_regs' has no member named 'gs'
> 
> Caused by commit b9dad0d2955db059cd92c81c37ddcbef0abc8bf8 ("x86:
> kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix").  64bit appears to not
> have a gs in its pt_regs.

Oh, that was fixed on linux-2.6-tip tree...

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commit;h=fee039a1d05c6e0f71b0fe270d847742a02d56c4

> 
> I have used the version of this tree that was in next-20090325 for today.

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

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