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

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Fri Oct 14 2022 - 09:33:04 EST


On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:42 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> In file included from arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S:29:
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h:68:5: error: "PTRS_PER_PMD" is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Werror=undef]
> 68 | #if PTRS_PER_PMD > 1
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> Exposed by commit
>
> 0a7606a9832a ("kbuild: move -Wundef from KBUILD_CFLAGS to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS")
>
> I have no idea what the root cause is. :-(
>
> It is a great pity that this commit was not in linux-next before the
> merge window opened. :-(



Sorry for the annoyance again.

I gave up this patch for now.

I will drop it and need to sort out warnings.





>
> I have applied the following hack for today.
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:34:34 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] i386: hack for "kbuild: move -Wundef from KBUILD_CFLAGS to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS"
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> index 7c9c968a42ef..0f3f186ca140 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ do { \
> * With PAE paging (PTRS_PER_PMD > 1), we allocate PTRS_PER_PGD == 4 pages for
> * the PMD's in addition to the pages required for the last level pagetables.
> */
> -#if PTRS_PER_PMD > 1
> +#if defined(PTRS_PER_PMD) && (PTRS_PER_PMD > 1)
> #define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) (((pages) / PTRS_PER_PMD) + PTRS_PER_PGD)
> #else
> #define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) ((pages) / PTRS_PER_PGD)
> --
> 2.35.1
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada