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

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Message-ID: <CAMj1kXF4eQBYiPBv2asbu+yqcCuYSmw-8_x41u=g4s1NJjb1Xg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:41:20 +0200
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the efi tree

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 10:08, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard,
>
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:32:31 +0200 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Stephen,
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 08:49, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > After merging the efi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> > > failed like this:
> > >
> > > In file included from drivers/platform/x86/uv_sysfs.c:14:
> > > arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h:118:22: error: expected ')' before '*' token
> > >   118 |         u64 (__efiapi *function)(enum uv_bios_cmd, ...);
> > >       |                      ^~
> > >       |                      )
> > >
> > > Caused by commit
> > >
> > >   73632c8c865f ("efi/runtime-wrappers: Remove duplicated macro for service returning void")
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the report.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this with Debian's GCC 12.2.0 when building the
> > efi/next tree either in isolation, or merged into yesterday's next.
> >
> > Could you please share the compiler version and the .config you used? Thanks.
>
> $ x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
> x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 12.3.0-4) 12.3.0
> (this is Debian's cross compiler that is ppcle64 hosted)
>
> and (see above) it is a x86_64 allmodconfig build.
>
> Maybe there is some interaction with something else in today's
> linux-next (just released).

Thanks. I fixed it in the efi/next tree so things should build as
expected the next time around.