[PATCH v5 26/33] nios2: Convert __pte_free_tlb() to use ptdescs

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/27/23 14:46, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
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> 
> On 6/27/23 16:01, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 6/27/23 13:05, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
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>>> On 6/27/23 14:56, Vishal Moola wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 12:14 PM Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/27/23 12:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/27/23 10:42, Vishal Moola wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 10:47 PM Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 01:57:38PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Part of the conversions to replace pgtable constructor/destructors with
>>>>>>>>> ptdesc equivalents.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This patch causes all nios2 builds to fail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like you tried to apply this patch on its own. This patch depends
>>>>>>> on patches 01-12 of this patchset to compile properly. I've cross-compiled
>>>>>>> this architecture and it worked, but let me know if something fails
>>>>>>> when its applied on top of those patches (or the rest of the patchset).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I did not try to apply this patch on its own. I tried to build yesterday's
>>>>>> pending-fixes branch of linux-next.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A quick check shows that the build fails with next-20230627. See log below.
>>>>
>>>> Ah it looks like this one slipped into -next on its own somehow? Stephen, please
>>>> drop this patch from -next; it shouldn't be in without the rest of the
>>>> patchset which
>>>> I intend to have Andrew take through the mm tree.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I apologize, but I queue this patch up for Linus and it's been pulled for this merge window. I didn't realize you were going to take this patchset through another tree.
>>>
>>> Sorry about that.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, indeed, I just confirmed that all nios2 builds in the mainline kernel
>> are now broken.
>>
> 
> Please let me know if you need to do anything. I'm going to out for a week starting tomorrow.
> 

Not sure I understand. It seems to me that it would have to be you to do something.
After all, you are the nios2 maintainer, and nios2 builds in mainline are now
broken. Maybe send a revert ? Am I missing something ?

Guenter