[LU-2658] Building a patchless client on ubuntu 12.04

• Status: Resolved
• Project: Lustre
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Type: Improvement
• Priority: Major
• Reporter: Thomas Lorenzen
• Assignee: Minh Diep
• Resolution: Fixed
• Labels: LB

Environment

1. 1. 1. lsb_release -a
         No LSB modules are available.
         Distributor ID: Ubuntu
         Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
         Release: 12.04
         Codename: precise

1. 1. 1. uname -a
         Linux tltest 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description

Hi'

The quest is to build a patchless lustre client for the ubuntu platform, in this case the 12.04 version. Configuring of lustre thus takes place with option --disable-server.

As expected, 2.3.0 does not compile nicely, since 2.3.0 is not linux-3.x.y aware. However, I take note, that there has over autumn last year been activities in making lustre linux-3.x.y aware.

From git I have downloaded tag 2.3.58 (1f77320), and that fails to compile as well, but going a step backward to tag 2.3.57 (fad209e) was a successful compilation experience, and I now have a lustre client running based on that tag.

For your information, the compile of tag 2.3.58 fails at the following spot, and it would be great, if this could be fixed for tag post2.3.58.

/home/tl/source/lustre-release-1f77320/lustre/llite/file.c: In function ‘ll_file_seek’:
/home/tl/source/lustre-release-1f77320/lustre/llite/file.c:2036:8: error: too many arguments to function ‘generic_file_llseek_size’
/home/tl/source/linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic/include/linux/fs.h:2451:15: note: declared here

Best regards.

Thomas.

Comments

[Thomas Lorenzen]

Hi'

I just take note, that 2.3.59 was tagged over the weekend, so I quickly tried that tag out as well, but it fails to compile at the same spot as does 2.3.58.

Best regards.

Thomas.

[Peter Jones]

Minh

Could you please look into this one?

Thanks

Peter

[James A Simmons]

This will impact the FC18 support as well in ticket LU-1812.

[Thomas Lorenzen]

Hi'

Just commenting, that also the recently tagged version 2.3.60 suffers from the reported issue.

Best regards.

Thomas.

[James A Simmons]

Can you take a look at LU-2148/LU-2686. Some patches are floating around that might help you. What kernel version is this?

[Minh Diep]

patch http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5244

[Yang Sheng]

Hi, Thomas, Could you please give a try to Minh's patch and feedback to us? I suspect it may failed by 'set but unused' warning. But i am not sure that Ubuntu if enabled it.

[Minh Diep]

Hi Thomas,

Any update on this?

[Peter Jones]

Landed for 2.4