Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Fix arm64 sysreg header dependencies

[Fuad Tabba]

Hi Oliver,

On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 14:41:18 +0100, Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The rule generating the arm64 sysreg header targets the generated
> directory, and its only prerequisites are tools/arch/arm64/tools/*,
> which is the inner Makefile. An existing directory looks up to date,
> so an incremental build never regenerates sysreg-defs.h. A selftest
> referencing a register added to the table since then fails with
> undeclared SYS_* identifiers. Clean builds are unaffected.

[...]

Gentle ping on this one. It's arm64-only (the Makefile.kvm rule that
generates sysreg-defs.h), so I think it'd go through kvmarm rather
than Paolo's tree. Could you take a look when you get a chance?

Cheers,
/fuad