Subject: Re: ppc64 and Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c issues

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 07:29:07 +1100

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 16:48 +0000, Yokoyama, Caz wrote:
> Thank you for the report.
> Have you tried to compile on x86_64? Which rhel do you use? Rhel6.X?
> MIC card is expected to work with x86_64 host, not with ppc64. We have never compiled on ppc host while our primary development platform was rhel6.X.
> 
> Line 92 is the first use of htole16 and MIC_VRING_ENTRIES. Is there any change on them?

Then you should make sure your Kconfig/Makefile stanza only compiles it
on x86_64 instead of breaking all other architectures...

Ben.

> Thank you.
> -caz, [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Borkmann [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 5:42 AM
> To: Yokoyama, Caz
> Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> Subject: ppc64 and Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c issues
> 
> Hi Caz,
> 
> I think commit ...
> 
> commit 8d49751580db804a02caf6a5b7cebe2ff26c0d7e
> Author: Caz Yokoyama <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Thu Sep 5 16:42:39 2013 -0700
> 
>      Sample Implementation of Intel MIC User Space Daemon.
> 
> ... actually triggers a build error on my default config
> ppc64 (I'm using net-next tree):
> 
>    HOSTCC  Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:93: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:96: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:113: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:116: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:119: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:146: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:149: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:151: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c:152: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
> make[3]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [Documentation/mic/mpssd] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [Documentation/mic] Error 2
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
> 
> gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel