Missing PAGE_MASK macro on PPC arches

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Jun 25 12:46:50 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:24:51PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> The macro "PAGE_MASK" is normally defined in the "asm/page.h" header, 
> provided  by the "kernel-headers" package. This header is auto-generated 
> from the correspond "include/asm-powerpc/page.h", with removing of all 
> "__KERNEL__" ifdefs.
> 
> Unlike in x86, the "PAGE_MASK" definition in 
> "include/asm-powerpc/page.h" is kernel-private (i.e. sits under the 
> "__KERNEL__" ifdef), hence after the stripping we have an empty 
> "asm/page.h" for ppc and ppc64 arches.
> 
> Because of this some programs are not compiled properly.
> 
> Is it an upstream kernel bug or something else?

It also happens on RHEL5/x86_64:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229559

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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