linux-kernel - Re: [External] : [PATCH 5.4 000/187] 5.4.302-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <2025120235-flashbulb-embargo-3cc3@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 10:29:15 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: ALOK TIWARI <alok.a.tiwari@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [External] : [PATCH 5.4 000/187] 5.4.302-rc1 review

On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 09:27:10AM +0530, ALOK TIWARI wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/1/2025 4:51 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Ian Rogers<irogers@...gle.com>
> >      tools bitmap: Add missing asm-generic/bitsperlong.h include
> 
> f38ce0209ab455 "tools bitmap: Add missing asm-generic/bitsperlong.h include"
> 
> We are getting a build failure due to this commit.
> 
> ----
>   CC       util/bitmap.o
>   CC       util/hweight.o
> BUILDSTDERR: In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-5.4.302/linux-5.4.302-master.20251201.el8.v1/tools/include/linux/bitmap.h:6,
> BUILDSTDERR:                  from ../lib/bitmap.c:6:
> BUILDSTDERR: /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-5.4.302/linux-5.4.302-master.20251201.el8.v1/tools/include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h:14:2:
> error: #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> BUILDSTDERR:    14 | #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> BUILDSTDERR:       |  ^~~~~
>   CC       util/smt.o
>   CC       util/strbuf.o
>   CC       util/string.o
>   CC       util/strlist.o
>   CC       util/strfilter.o
>   CC       util/top.o
>   CC       util/usage.o
>   CC       util/dso.o
> BUILDSTDERR: make[4]: *** [util/Build:227: util/bitmap.o] Error 1
> BUILDSTDERR: make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>   LD       tests/perf-in.o
>   LD       arch/x86/util/perf-in.o
>   LD       arch/x86/perf-in.o
>   LD       arch/perf-in.o
>   LD       bench/perf-in.o
>   LD       ui/perf-in.o
> BUILDSTDERR: make[3]: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-5.4.302/linux-5.4.302-master.20251201.el8.v1/tools/build/Makefile.build:143:
> util] Error 2
> BUILDSTDERR: make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> BUILDSTDERR: make[2]: *** [Makefile.perf:593: perf-in.o] Error 2
> BUILDSTDERR: make[1]: *** [Makefile.perf:217: sub-make] Error 2
> BUILDSTDERR: make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
> BUILDSTDERR: error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.blrvNZ (%build)

I can't get any tools/ targets to build on 5.4 and have not for quite
some time, so I'll have to trust you on this.  I'll go drop this commit
and push out a -rc2.

thanks,

greg k-h