Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree

[Vincent Donnefort]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 03:57:50PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> During the final build, today's linux-next build (arm64 allyesconfig)
> failed like this:
> 
> /tmp/next/build/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/trace.c:16:10: fatal error: simple_ring_buffer.c: No such file or directory
>    16 | #include "simple_ring_buffer.c"
>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   680a04c333fa2 (KVM: arm64: Add tracing capability for the nVHE/pKVM hyp)
> 
> It's not clear to me how this is supposed to work for O= builds like
> -next does, the Makefile does:
> 
>    CFLAGS_trace.nvhe.o += -I$(objtree)/kernel/trace/
> 
> which is pointing at the object directory but simple_ring_buffer.c isn't
> generated so I'd expect to be looking for it relative to $(src).  I have
> ignored this for today for the purposes of -next.

Arg of course, it should be

-CFLAGS_trace.nvhe.o += -I$(objtree)/kernel/trace/
+CFLAGS_trace.nvhe.o += -I$(srctree)/kernel/trace/

Marc, how do you want to proceed for that one?