Greeting's I see a build failure for net-next branch on my Power 8 system
13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] ./include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h: In function 64_stats_read�: 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] ./include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:80:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 鈥榣ocal_read鈥� discards 鈥榗onst鈥� qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] return local64_read(&p->v); 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] ^ 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] In file included from ./include/asm-generic/local64.h:22:0, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/local64.h:1, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:72, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/cgroup-defs.h:20, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/cgroup.h:28, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:13, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/swap.h:9, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/suspend.h:5, 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] from init/do_mounts.c:7: 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/local.h:20:24: note: expected 鈥榮truct local_t *鈥� but argument is of type 鈥榗onst struct local_t *鈥� 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] static __inline__ long local_read(local_t *l) 13:25:10 ERROR| [stderr] ^ 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] In file included from ./include/linux/cgroup-defs.h:20:0, 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/cgroup.h:28, 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] from ./include/linux/hugetlb.h:9, 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] from arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c:16: 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] ./include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h: In function 鈥榰64_stats_read鈥�: 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] ./include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:80:2: error: passing argument 1 of 鈥榣ocal_read鈥� discards 鈥榗onst鈥� qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror] 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] return local64_read(&p->v); 13:25:11 ERROR| [stderr] ^ I see some recent code changes here 9dfd871481c8e9c512938e9ce632beed645363e0 Merge branch 'u64_stats_t' fd2f4737870eb866537fbbffa2b59414b9b0c0a2 net: use u64_stats_t in struct pcpu_lstats 5260dd3ed1ff7eba39251b28977e4d8950e2f099 tun: switch to u64_stats_t 316580b69d0a7aeeee5063af47438b626bc47cbd u64_stats: provide u64_stats_t type -- Regard's Abdul Haleem IBM Linux Technology Centre
