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

From: Marc Zyngier

Date: Wed Mar 11 2026 - 12:30:09 EST


On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:11:40 +0000,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?

Patch on top of kvmarm/next, please.

Thanks,

M.

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