Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/381] 5.10.180-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 14:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:14:36AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink) wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.180 release.
> > > There are 381 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> >
> > Build test (gcc version 11.3.1 20230511):
> > mips: 63 configs -> no failure
> > arm: 104 configs -> no failure
> > arm64: 3 configs -> 1 failure
> > x86_64: 4 configs -> no failure
> > alpha allmodconfig -> no failure
> > powerpc allmodconfig -> no failure
> > riscv allmodconfig -> no failure
> > s390 allmodconfig -> no failure
> > xtensa allmodconfig -> no failure
> >
> > arm64 allmodconfig build fails with the error:
> >
> > /gcc/bin/aarch64-linux-ld: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/kvm_nvhe.o: in function `__kvm_nvhe___kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa':
> > (.hyp.text+0x1a4c): undefined reference to `__kvm_nvhe_memset'
> > /gcc/bin/aarch64-linux-ld: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/kvm_nvhe.o: in function `__kvm_nvhe___kvm_tlb_flush_vmid':
> > (.hyp.text+0x1b20): undefined reference to `__kvm_nvhe_memset'
> > /gcc/bin/aarch64-linux-ld: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/kvm_nvhe.o: in function `__kvm_nvhe___kvm_flush_cpu_context':
> > (.hyp.text+0x1b80): undefined reference to `__kvm_nvhe_memset'
>
> That's odd, I don't see that symbol anywhere in the tree at all.
>
> And the only arm-related kvm changes don't have those symbols either
> (the other kvm changes are x86-only)
>
> Also, no one else has seen this issue.  Can you bisect?

This is an old issue,
Many other reported long back [1]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CADYN=9KSKQx816id-zWepV-E3ozph3k2_i9Rhs6QseFv0hkPfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

- Naresh