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

From: Jason Baron <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:44:09 -0400

On 10/30/2013 03:00 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> In file included from include/linux/init.h:4:0,
>                  from fs/eventpoll.c:14:
> fs/eventpoll.c: In function 'eventpoll_init':
> include/linux/compiler.h:321:20: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_2137' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(void *) <= 8 && sizeof(struct epitem) > 128
>     prefix ## suffix();    \

Yes, my fault for not compiling on more arches - I've posted a fix for this today as:

Subject: [PATCH] epoll: remove the on_list check for 'struct epitem'

Thanks,

-Jason