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

From: Eric DeVolder
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 14:53:20 EST


I'm looking at this, turns out PROC_KCORE selects CRASH_CORE, which according to the original config settings, does not pickup KEXEC_CORE. So I'm looking at closing that gap.
eric

On 8/7/23 23:40, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
Hi all,

After merging the mm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc44x_defconfig) failed like this:

In file included from kernel/crash_core.c:23:
kernel/kexec_internal.h:11:54: warning: 'struct kexec_segment' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
11 | int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image, struct kexec_segment *segment);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c:321:40: warning: 'struct crash_mem' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
321 | int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int need_kernel_map,
| ^~~~~~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c: In function 'crash_prepare_elf64_headers':
kernel/crash_core.c:334:23: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
334 | nr_phdr += mem->nr_ranges;
| ^~
In file included from include/vdso/const.h:5,
from include/linux/const.h:4,
from include/linux/bits.h:5,
from include/linux/ratelimit_types.h:5,
from include/linux/printk.h:9,
from include/asm-generic/bug.h:22,
from arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h:116,
from include/linux/bug.h:5,
from arch/powerpc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:8,
from arch/powerpc/include/asm/atomic.h:11,
from include/linux/atomic.h:7,
from include/linux/mm_types_task.h:13,
from include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
from include/linux/buildid.h:5,
from kernel/crash_core.c:7:
kernel/crash_core.c:346:32: error: 'ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN' undeclared (first use in this function)
346 | elf_sz = ALIGN(elf_sz, ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/uapi/linux/const.h:32:50: note: in definition of macro '__ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK'
32 | #define __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK(x, mask) (((x) + (mask)) & ~(mask))
| ^~~~
include/linux/align.h:8:33: note: in expansion of macro '__ALIGN_KERNEL'
8 | #define ALIGN(x, a) __ALIGN_KERNEL((x), (a))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c:346:18: note: in expansion of macro 'ALIGN'
346 | elf_sz = ALIGN(elf_sz, ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN);
| ^~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c:346:32: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
346 | elf_sz = ALIGN(elf_sz, ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/uapi/linux/const.h:32:50: note: in definition of macro '__ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK'
32 | #define __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK(x, mask) (((x) + (mask)) & ~(mask))
| ^~~~
include/linux/align.h:8:33: note: in expansion of macro '__ALIGN_KERNEL'
8 | #define ALIGN(x, a) __ALIGN_KERNEL((x), (a))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c:346:18: note: in expansion of macro 'ALIGN'
346 | elf_sz = ALIGN(elf_sz, ELF_CORE_HEADER_ALIGN);
| ^~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c:396:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
396 | for (i = 0; i < mem->nr_ranges; i++) {
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:397:29: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
397 | mstart = mem->ranges[i].start;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:398:27: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
398 | mend = mem->ranges[i].end;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c: At top level:
kernel/crash_core.c:420:36: warning: 'struct crash_mem' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
420 | int crash_exclude_mem_range(struct crash_mem *mem,
| ^~~~~~~~~
kernel/crash_core.c: In function 'crash_exclude_mem_range':
kernel/crash_core.c:427:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
427 | for (i = 0; i < mem->nr_ranges; i++) {
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:428:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
428 | start = mem->ranges[i].start;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:429:26: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
429 | end = mem->ranges[i].end;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:444:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
444 | mem->ranges[i].start = 0;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:445:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
445 | mem->ranges[i].end = 0;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:446:36: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
446 | if (i < mem->nr_ranges - 1) {
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:448:52: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
448 | for (j = i; j < mem->nr_ranges - 1; j++) {
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:449:44: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
449 | mem->ranges[j].start =
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:450:52: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
450 | mem->ranges[j+1].start;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:451:44: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
451 | mem->ranges[j].end =
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:452:60: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
452 | mem->ranges[j+1].end;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:461:36: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
461 | mem->nr_ranges--;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:464:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
464 | mem->nr_ranges--;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:470:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
470 | mem->ranges[i].end = p_start - 1;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:474:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
474 | mem->ranges[i].end = p_start - 1;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:476:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
476 | mem->ranges[i].start = p_end + 1;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:485:21: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
485 | if (i == mem->max_nr_ranges - 1)
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:490:20: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
490 | if (j < mem->nr_ranges) {
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:492:29: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
492 | for (i = mem->nr_ranges - 1; i >= j; i--)
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:493:28: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
493 | mem->ranges[i + 1] = mem->ranges[i];
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:493:49: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
493 | mem->ranges[i + 1] = mem->ranges[i];
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:496:12: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
496 | mem->ranges[j].start = temp_range.start;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:497:12: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
497 | mem->ranges[j].end = temp_range.end;
| ^~
kernel/crash_core.c:498:12: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct crash_mem'
498 | mem->nr_ranges++;
| ^~

I am not sure exactly which commit caused but I have revreted these
for today:

6a41fd4665e6 ("x86/crash: optimize CPU changes")
add3b7e011e9 ("crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()")
4a7eed40a7bc ("crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()")
8ce41bc6b147 ("x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support")
2b765af0c14f ("crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes")
36d2b573329b ("kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest")
ccfe0040500f ("crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support")
626775922a57 ("crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug")