linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3 v9] kexec: Fix i386 build warnings that missed declaration of struct kimage

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Message-ID: <20191114144353.GB7222@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:43:53 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, bhe@...hat.com, dyoung@...hat.com,
        jgross@...e.com, dhowells@...hat.com, Thomas.Lendacky@....com,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, vgoyal@...hat.com, d.hatayama@...itsu.com,
        horms@...ge.net.au, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v9] kexec: Fix i386 build warnings that missed
 declaration of struct kimage

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:20:42PM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> I really saw my building result, but kbuild reported the following messages:
> 
> 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
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You should not take the report of a bot blindly but should always double
check it. Like every other computer system programmed by humans, it can
make mistakes.

> Would you mind giving me any suggestions about this?

I'll take care of it all and push the results out soon.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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