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

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Wed Nov 05 2025 - 21:01:53 EST


On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 12:33:17 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After merging the ftrace tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c: In function 'print_syscall_enter':
> kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c:267:48: error: 'TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE_BIT'?
> 267 | if (!tr || !(tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE))
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE_BIT
> kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c:267:48: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 64b627c8da9a ("tracing: Add parsing of flags to the sys_enter_openat trace event")
>
> interacting with commit
>
> bbec8e28cac5 ("tracing: Allow tracer to add more than 32 options")
>
> which should have been fixed up in commit
>
> 2021eabbdb41 ("Merge probes/for-next")
>
> I have used the ftrace tree from next-20251105 for today.
>

Ah, Masami made a branch that I had to merge with a fix and I'm still
testing that. But my scripts merged it without the fix. Hopefully I'll have
that fixed soon.

-- Steve