I noticed this because alpha was broken due to the recent commit commit
bdc807871d ("avoid overflows in
kernel/time.c"). Most arches do something like this in their
asm/param.h:
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# define HZ CONFIG_HZ
#else
# define HZ 100
#endif
A few arches though (namely alpha/h8300/um/v850/xtensa) either do no set
HZ at all for !__KERNEL__, or they set it wrongly. This should bring all
arches in line by setting up HZ for userspace.
Without this currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha:
perl.c: In function 'perl_construct':
perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function)
-> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha;stamp=1210252894
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ HZ on alpha is 1024 for historical reasons. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
avoid-overflows-in-kernel-timec.patch makes CONFIG_HZ necessary for a
successful build. UML lacks a definition, so this patch adds one. It also
changes the hard-wired definition of HZ to CONFIG_HZ.
Note: this patch is a good idea even in the absence of hpa's time fixes.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Mike Frysinger