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

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Message-ID: <86plpuwjaz.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:50:44 +0100
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	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 tip tree

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 04:11:32 +0100,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:50:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig)
> > failed like this:
> 
> In file included from include/asm-generic/percpu.h:7,
>                  from arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:616,
>                  from arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/preempt.h:79,
>                  from include/linux/spinlock.h:56,
>                  from include/linux/irq.h:14,
>                  from kernel/irq/manage.c:11:
> kernel/irq/manage.c: In function 'irq_do_set_affinity':
> include/linux/percpu-defs.h:92:40: error: section attribute cannot be specified for local variables
>    92 |         extern __PCPU_DUMMY_ATTRS char __pcpu_unique_##name;            \

Crap. This seems to be caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU.

I'll respin a new version of this change shortly.

Thanks again for the heads up.

	M.

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