[Pvfs2-users] latest CVS and linux kernel 2.6.27

[Phil Carns]

Hello Ryuta,

We don't have a patch for this yet, but I confirmed the same compilation 
problems here as well.  Looks like we need to add a couple more 
configure tests.

-Phil

Ryuta Suzuki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now linux kernel 2.6.27 is out.
> I try to build pvfs2 kernel module against 2.6.27.
> The module compiles but incompatible to this version of kernel, and it 
> cannot be loaded (and mount fails, etc. etc.)
> 
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/devpvfs2-req.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.o
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c: 
> In function ‘dev_req_cache_initialize’:
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c:228: 
> warning: passing argument 5 of ‘kmem_cache_create’ from incompatible 
> pointer type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c: 
> In function ‘pvfs2_inode_cache_initialize’:
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c:330: 
> warning: passing argument 5 of ‘kmem_cache_create’ from incompatible 
> pointer type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c: 
> In function ‘kiocb_cache_initialize’:
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-cache.c:420: 
> warning: passing argument 5 of ‘kmem_cache_create’ from incompatible 
> pointer type
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/dcache.o
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.o
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c: In 
> function ‘check_mapping_tree’:
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:802: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_lock’ from incompatible pointer type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:822: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_unlock’ from incompatible pointer 
> type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c: In 
> function ‘locate_file_pages’:
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:894: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_lock’ from incompatible pointer type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:915: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_unlock’ from incompatible pointer 
> type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:918: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_lock’ from incompatible pointer type
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/file.c:938: 
> warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_read_unlock’ from incompatible pointer 
> type
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/inode.o
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/inode.c:369: 
> warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/dir.o
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/namei.o
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/namei.c:547: 
> warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/super.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-mod.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-bufmap.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/symlink.o
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/symlink.c:72: 
> warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/xattr.o
> CC [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/acl.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/xattr-trusted.o 
> 
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/xattr-default.o 
> 
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/waitqueue.o
> CC [M] 
> /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-proc.o
> LD [M] /home/ryuta/local/pvfs2/src/pvfs2-build/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2.o
> Building modules, stage 2.
> 
> If there's a patch, I'll be happy to give it a shot. Thank you.
> 
> -ryuta
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