Re: [PATCH 1/2 v7] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified

From: kbuild test robot
Date: Wed Oct 30 2019 - 14:26:09 EST


Hi Lianbo,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v5.4-rc5 next-20191030]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Lianbo-Jiang/x86-kdump-Fix-kmem-s-reported-an-invalid-freepointer-when-SME-was-active/20191031-001903
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 320000e72ec0613e164ce9608d865396fb2da278
config: i386-defconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-7 (Debian 7.4.0-14) 7.4.0
reproduce:
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make ARCH=i386

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

In file included from arch/x86/realmode/init.c:11:0:
>> arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h:5:32: warning: 'struct kimage' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image);
^~~~~~
arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h:6:37: warning: 'struct kimage' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
int crash_copy_backup_region(struct kimage *image);
^~~~~~
arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h:7:39: warning: 'struct kimage' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
int crash_setup_memmap_entries(struct kimage *image,
^~~~~~

vim +5 arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h

dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 4
dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 @5 int crash_load_segments(struct kimage *image);
dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 6 int crash_copy_backup_region(struct kimage *image);
dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 7 int crash_setup_memmap_entries(struct kimage *image,
dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 8 struct boot_params *params);
89f579ce99f7e0 Yi Wang 2018-11-22 9 void crash_smp_send_stop(void);
dd5f726076cc76 Vivek Goyal 2014-08-08 10

:::::: The code at line 5 was first introduced by commit
:::::: dd5f726076cc7639d9713b334c8c133f77c6757a kexec: support for kexec on panic using new system call

:::::: TO: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
:::::: CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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