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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google•com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp•fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	kexec@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 20 (vmcore)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:58:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <514A06B8.9060808@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1303201153330.17761@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On 03/20/13 11:56, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
>> on x86_64:
>>
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c: In function 'merge_note_headers_elf64':
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c:349:22: error: 'VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c:349:22: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c: In function 'merge_note_headers_elf32':
>> fs/proc/vmcore.c:470:22: error: 'VMCOREINFO_NOTE_NAME' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> make[3]: *** [fs/proc/vmcore.o] Error 1
>>
>>
>> Needs to #include <linux/kexec.h>
>>
> 
> I don't think that's it, linux/kexec.h already gets included indirectly.  
> The problem is that CONFIG_KEXEC isn't set so the definition in kexec.h is 
> meaningless.

Thanks.   I meant to check on CONFIG_KEXEC and then forgot to do that.

> This comes from "vmcore: check NT_VMCORE_PAD as a mark indicating the end 
> of ELF note buffer" merged through the -mm tree.  I've added the patch's 
> author and Andrew to the cc.
> 
> How can this be protected by CONFIG_KEXEC?
> --


-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20  5:05 linux-next: Tree for Mar 20 Stephen Rothwell
2013-03-20 16:47 ` linux-next: Tree for Mar 20 (vmcore) Randy Dunlap
2013-03-20 18:56   ` David Rientjes
2013-03-20 18:58     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2013-03-21  0:10     ` David Rientjes
2013-03-21  2:20       ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-03-21  2:49         ` David Rientjes
2013-03-21  3:51           ` Stephen Rothwell

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