[lustre-devel] Failed to build a Lustre Storage Client on OpenVZ Kernel ! Is this a bug?

[James Simmons]

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build a Lustre client on OpenVZ kernel (version: 042stab120.5, based on RHEL 6.8 kernel
> 2.6.32-642.6.1.el6), and some bugs occured: 
> 
> (1) When build version v2_8_59_0 in git tag repo of Lustre, I encountered the following errors:
> "
> LD [M] /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/fld/ fld.o
> CC [M] /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/lloop.o
> In file included from /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/lloop.c:109:
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/llite_internal.h:1469: error: conflicting types for
> 'iov_iter_iovec'
> include/linux/fs.h:765: note: previous definition of 'iov_iter_iovec' was here
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/llite_internal.h: In function 'iov_iter_iovec':
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/llite_internal.h:1472: error: 'const struct
> iov_iter' has no member named 'iov'
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/llite_internal.h:1473: error: 'const struct
> iov_iter' has no member named 'iov'
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/llite_internal.h:1473: error: type defaults to 'int'
> in declaration of '_min2'
> ...
> "
> 
> (2) When build old version v2_8_50_0 in git tag repo of Lustre, the following errors display: 
> "
> CC [M] /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_lock.o
> CC [M] /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_io.o
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_io.c: In function 'vvp_mmap_locks':
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_io.c:423: error: 'struct iov_iter' has no member
> named 'iov'
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_io.c: In function 'vvp_io_advance':
> /opt/src/lustre_testvz/lustre_new/lustre-r161012/lustre/llit e/vvp_io.c:514: error: 'struct iov_iter' has no member
> named 'iov'
> ...
> "
> 
> Files with full error context are attached.
> 
> So, How can I fix the problem? Is this a bug which need to be fixed?

Can you post your config.log.

 
> Thanks! Any suggestion is appreciated!
> 
> Best Wishes!
> 
>