On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Oliver O'Halloran <ooh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Some OF platforms (pseries and some SPARC systems) has their own >>> implementations of NUMA affinity detection rather than using the generic >>> OF_NUMA driver, which mainly exists for arm64. For other platforms one >>> of two fallbacks provided by the base OF driver are used depending on >>> CONFIG_NUMA. >>> >>> In the CONFIG_NUMA=n case the fallback is an inline function in of.h. >>> In the =y case the fallback is a real function which is defined as a >>> weak symbol so that it may be overwritten by the architecture if desired. >>> >>> The problem with this arrangement is that the real implementations all >>> export of_node_to_nid(). Unfortunately it's not possible to export the >>> fallback since it would clash with the non-weak version. As a result >>> we get build failures when: >>> >>> a) CONFIG_NUMA=y && CONFIG_OF=y, and >>> b) The platform doesn't implement of_node_to_nid(), and >>> c) A module uses of_node_to_nid() >>> >>> Given b) will be true for most platforms this is fairly easy to hit >>> and has been observed on ia64 and x86. >> >> How specifically do we hit this? The only module I see using >> of_node_to_nid in mainline is Cell EDAC driver. > > The of_pmem driver is using it currently pending for a 4.17 pull > request. Stephen hit the compile failure in -next.
You mean the stuff reviewed last week in the middle of the merge window? Sounds like 4.18 material to me. Rob
