On Monday, March 13, 2017 03:33:07 AM Chris Packham wrote: > Hi, > > I've just attempted to build a powerpc kernel from 4.11-rc2 using a > custom defconfig (available on request) and I'm hitting the following > error in the early stages of compilation. > > <stdin>:1325:2: error: #warning syscall statx not implemented [-Werror=cpp] > > Same thing seems to happen with mpc85xx_basic_defconfig. > > I don't actually need this syscall so I'd be happy to turn something off > to get things building. I did a quick search and couldn't see anything > on linuxppc-dev but google keeps correcting "statx" to "stats" so I > could have missed it. > >
The upstream commit (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a528d35e8bfcc521d7cb70aaf03e1bd296c8493f) that introduces the statx syscall provides a test program. I will wire-up the syscall on ppc64, run that test program and post the patch if the test program works well. -- chandan
