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In the following commit:
025768a966 x86/cpu: Use alternative to generate the TASK_SIZE_MAX constant
... we added the new task_size_max() inline, which uses X86_FEATURE_LA57,
but doesn't include <asm/cpufeatures.h> which defines the constant.
Due to the way alternatives macros work currently this doesn't get reported as an
immediate build error, only as a link error, if a .c file happens to include
<asm/page.h> first:
> ld: kernel/fork.o:(.altinstructions+0x98): undefined reference to `X86_FEATURE_LA57'
In the current upstream kernel no .c file includes <asm/page.h> before including
some other header that includes <asm/cpufeatures.h>, which is why this dependency
bug went unnoticed.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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