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From: Greg KH on 22 Apr 2010 23:40
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thursday 22 April 2010, Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:08:30 +0200
> > "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H(a)gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 22 April 2010, gregkh(a)suse.de wrote:
> [...]
> > > > From 35f2a591192d0a5d9f7fc696869c76f0b8e49c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > > From: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de>
> > > > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:13:34 +1000
> > > > Subject: md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.
> > > >
> > > > From: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de>
> > > >
> > > > commit 35f2a591192d0a5d9f7fc696869c76f0b8e49c3d upstream.
> > > >
> > > > With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible
> > > > to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks. Make sure this
> > > > works.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Brett King <king.br(a)gmail.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>
> > >
> > > This patch, as part of the current 2.6.33 stable queue, breaks compiling
> > > on i386 (CONFIG_LBDAF=y) for me (amd64 builds fine):
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> > > Root device is (254, 6)
> > > Setup is 12700 bytes (padded to 12800 bytes).
> > > System is 2415 kB
> > > CRC db6fa5fa
> > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
> > > ERROR: "__umoddi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined!
> > >
> > > reverting just this patch fixes the problem for me.
> >
> > Thanks for testing and reporting.
> >
> > If you could verify that this additional patch fixes the compile error I
> > would really appreciate it.
>
> I can confirm that this patch on top of the original
> md-raid5-allow-for-more-than-2-31-chunks.patch fixes the build problem on
> i386 for me (amd64 continues to build fine as well).
>
> Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h(a)gmx.de>

Neil, care to push this to Linus?

thanks,

greg k-h
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