Build regression in next-20150331

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:39:37 AM Tyler Baker wrote:
> Hi Thomas, Rafael,
> 
> I was notified this morning by the kernelci.org system that a new
> build error has been detected in next-20150331[0][1][2]. It seems that
> "clockevents: Remove CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD"
> c9439b1d6eb4ada5c2faf3970ac0d2bc4bd20e14 is the culprit.
> 
> Initially, I reported these failures to John Stultz and his response is below.
> 
> *snip*
> 
> I suspect we either need to enable GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS on those three
> hardware types, or if that's not possible, rework the definitions.
> 
> Or something like (copy-paste whitespace corruption below.. only for
> reference, don't apply):
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> index 2a1563a..6da40c0 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
> @@ -107,12 +107,13 @@ static inline void tick_resume_broadcast(void) { }
>  static inline bool tick_resume_check_broadcast(void) { return false; }
>  static inline void tick_broadcast_init(void) { }
>  static inline int tick_broadcast_update_freq(struct
> clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq) { return -ENODEV; }
> -
> +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
>  /* Set the periodic handler in non broadcast mode */
>  static inline void tick_set_periodic_handler(struct
> clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast)
>  {
>         dev->event_handler = tick_handle_periodic;
>  }
> +#endif
>  #endif /* !BROADCAST */
> 
> *snip*
> 
> Any chance either of you can reproduce this issue on your end?

Can you please tell me if the appended patch helps?

Rafael


---
 kernel/time/tick-internal.h |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: linux-pm/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
+++ linux-pm/kernel/time/tick-internal.h
@@ -107,11 +107,15 @@ static inline bool tick_resume_check_bro
 static inline void tick_broadcast_init(void) { }
 static inline int tick_broadcast_update_freq(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq) { return -ENODEV; }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
 /* Set the periodic handler in non broadcast mode */
 static inline void tick_set_periodic_handler(struct clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast)
 {
 	dev->event_handler = tick_handle_periodic;
 }
+#else
+static void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev) { }
+#endif
 #endif /* !BROADCAST */
 
 /* Functions related to oneshot broadcasting */