[LU-10560] Fixes for 4.14 kernel

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.12.0
• Labels: llnl
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: James A Simmons
• Reporter: Amir Shehata (Inactive)

Description

While Mike Marciniszyn was testing the TID-RDMA he tried to build Lustre against upstream. And ran into this build error:

make[3]: Entering directory `/nfs/sc/disks/fabric_work/mmarciniszyn/repos/wfr/wf                                                                                                                                                             r-linux-devel'
  CC [M]  /nfs/sc/disks/fabric_work/mmarciniszyn/repos/lustre-release/libcfs/libcfs/linux/linux-tracefile.o
  CC [M]  /nfs/sc/disks/fabric_work/mmarciniszyn/repos/lustre-release/libcfs/libcfs/linux/linux-debug.o
In file included from /nfs/sc/disks/fabric_work/mmarciniszyn/repos/lustre-release/libcfs/libcfs/linux/linux-debug.c:50:0:
./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h: In function ‘set_fs’:
./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:31:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
  current->thread.addr_limit = fs; 

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-11132 LC_BI_BDEV: configuration problem for 2.6 kernel
• is related to: LU-9558 Support linux kernel version 4.12
• is related to: LU-11310 support for SLES 15
• is related to: LU-10805 fixes for 4.15 kernel
• is related to: LU-10997 Ubuntu 18 support
• is related to: LU-10934 integrate statx() API with Lustre