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Nathan reported below building error: ===== $ curl -LSso .config https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/community/linux-edge/config-edge.armv7 $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- olddefconfig all .. arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.o: in function `arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo': machine_kexec.c:(.text+0x488): undefined reference to `vmcoreinfo_append_str' ==== On architecutres, like arm, s390, ppc, sh, function arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is located in machine_kexec.c and it can only be compiled in when CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y. That's not right because arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() is used to export arch specific vmcoreinfo. CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO is supposed to control its compiling in. However, CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO could be independent of CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, e.g CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y will select CONFIG_VMVCORE_INFO. Or CONFIG_KEXEC/CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is set while CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set, it will report linking error. So, on arm, s390, ppc and sh, move arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo out to a new file vmcore_info.c. Let CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO decide if compiling in arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray newlines at eof] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129135033.157195-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240126045551.GA126645@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/T/#u Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.