arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:2083:1: sparse: sparse: symbol '__pcpu_scope___x86_call_depth' was not declared. Should it be static?

From: kernel test robot

Date: Sat Dec 13 2025 - 17:50:27 EST


Hi Brian,

FYI, the error/warning was bisected to this commit, please ignore it if it's irrelevant.

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: 4a298a43f5e339f48d2dda0665c02b88ee9a4e03
commit: 839be1619fb897364b782997bc2c5d072d7a79f2 x86/retbleed: Move call depth to percpu hot section
date: 9 months ago
config: x86_64-randconfig-123-20251213 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251214/202512140644.bKd0WN29-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
rustc: rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251214/202512140644.bKd0WN29-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512140644.bKd0WN29-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:2083:1: sparse: sparse: symbol '__pcpu_scope___x86_call_depth' was not declared. Should it be static?

vim +/__pcpu_scope___x86_call_depth +2083 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

2076
2077 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
2078 /*
2079 * Note: Do not make this dependant on CONFIG_MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
2080 * so that this space is reserved in the hot cache section even when the
2081 * mitigation is disabled.
2082 */
> 2083 DEFINE_PER_CPU_CACHE_HOT(u64, __x86_call_depth);
2084 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(__x86_call_depth);
2085

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