On 13/03/17 21:52, Chandan Rajendra wrote: > 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. >
Thanks, I'd be happy to test a patch here. In the meantime I worked around the build issue by adding __INGORE_statx to checksyscalls.sh.
