[OpenAFS] Re: RHEL 7.5 beta / 3.10.0-830.el7.x86_66 kernel lock up

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 05:11:24PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Comparing the 1.6.22.2 module builds from the SL packaging, where the kABI hashes of the used symbols are stored as a requirement, is seems none of those hashes changed between -693 and -830.
> 
> There are two differences in the configure results:
> 
> -ac_cv_linux_header_sched_signal_h=no
> +ac_cv_linux_header_sched_signal_h=yes
> 
> -ac_cv_linux_struct_file_operations_has_iterate=no
> +ac_cv_linux_struct_file_operations_has_iterate=yes

That's very helpful to know.

Does the new tree actually have a sched/signal.h header?
Does the new struct file_operations have an 'iterate' member
function?
(The idea being to tell whether they changed something in new and
interesting ways or our configure test(s) are broken.)

-Ben

> And there's quite a bit of churn in include/linux.fs.h (and some in key.h).