On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 7:45 PM Andrew Rybchenko
<arybche...@solarflare.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/21/19 1:30 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:28 PM David Marchand
> > <david.march...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:22 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> A build error reported related to the selected
> >>> 'get_user_pages_remote()' kernel API:
> >>>
> >>> .../kernel/linux/kni/kni_dev.h:113:8:
> >>>   error: too few arguments to function ‘get_user_pages_remote’
> >>>   ret = get_user_pages_remote(tsk, tsk->mm, iova, 1
> >>>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>> Currently there are three version of the 'get_user_pages_remote()'
> >>> supported, based on kernel version
> >>> < 4.9, = 4.9, > 4.9
> >>>
> >>> These version based checks are not working fine with the distro kernels
> >>> which is the cause of reported build error. The error reported by the
> >>> kernel version 4.8, but it is using API defined in > 4.9.
> >>>
> >>> To be able to take control of this, and possible more, related build
> >>> error, increasing the minimum supported kernel version for iova=va with
> >>> KNI to kernel version 4.9.
> >>>
> >>> This leaves us with single version of the kernel API and more
> >>> manageable.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> >
> > We need this change to fix compilation issues for -rc3.
> > Applied, thanks.
>
> The build is still broken on Debian 9 stretch which has Linux 4.9.189,
> but corresponding function still has no the last argument.
> It looks like requirements should be bumped to >=4.10.0.

+1

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