[ewg] error with RHEL 5.3 backports in 1.4.1-rc2

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Mon Mar 30 13:20:01 PDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:08:02PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 14:23 -0500, Jon Mason wrote:
> > 
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> > If you have
> > writeback.h and mpage.h included in lustre_compat25.h (or one of the
> > other files), the it could be causing this.
> 
> Indeed, we do include both:
> 
> #include <linux/writeback.h>
> #include <linux/mpage.h>        /* for generic_writepages */
> 
> in lustre_compat25.h.
> 
> > Feel free to file a bug.
> 
> I can and will if you wish.  If you would prefer to just deal with this
> here, that is fine with me too.  I just want to work within whatever
> processes work best for y'all.
> 
> > One way to resolve it would be to move
> > kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/include/linux/writeback.h
> > to 
> > kernel_addons/backport/2.6.18-EL5.3/include/linux/mpage.h
> > 
> > I can send you a quick patch to try out, if you are interested.
> 
> Sure.  I'm interested in whatever suggestions you might have.

I believe the attached patch will fix the issue.  Please download the
latest ofed kernel, configure, apply the patch, build and load the new
modules.

Let me know if it fixes you problem, and I'll make similar changes to
RHEL5.1 and RHEL5.2.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> b.
> 



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