Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the slabh tree

From: Jason Wessel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:32:59 -0500

On 03/29/2010 12:02 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
>
> After merging the slabh tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function 'kdb_strdup':
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:309: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc'
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:309: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function 'debug_kfree':
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:810: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree'
>
> Caused by commit d103d3b3e8512312b5254950035366d4422a479a ("percpu: don't
> implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h") from the slabh tree interacting
> with commit 5572dd736e5577dfefafe2ad3b54760e8323e33d ("kdb: core for kgdb
> back end (1 of 2)") from the kgdb tree.
>
> I applied the following merge fixup patch which should be applied to the
> kdbg tree (see Documentation/SubmitChecklist Rule #1 :-)).
>
>   

But of course.

This is applied and will appear in kgdb-next in the next hour.

Thanks,
Jason.