Re: Next April 24: [S390] allmodconfig build failure (trace/events)

[Sachin Sant]

Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:25:33 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > * Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Today's next tree build(s390 allmodconfig) failed with
> > >
> > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `trace_softirq_entry'
> > > include/trace/events/irq.h:42: undefined reference to  
> > > `'
> > > include/trace/events/irq.h:42: undefined reference to  
> > > `__tracepoint_softirq_entry'
> > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `trace_softirq_exit':
> > > include/trace/events/irq.h:48: undefined reference to  
> > > `__tracepoint_softirq_exit'
> > > include/trace/events/irq.h:48: undefined reference to  
> > > `__tracepoint_softirq_exit'
> > >       
> > Hm, that's weird - s390 does not build kernel/softirq.o? Hm, it does 
> > - softirq.o is an obj-y object.
> >     
>
> s390 does build kernel/softirq.o. However it's anything but obvious to
> me how the tracepoint infrastructure works. Too many #ifdefs, #define's
> and #undefine's...
>
> I would expect that struct __tracepoint_softirq_entry somehow gets
> defined via one of the TRACE_FORMAT macros, no?
Today's next tree also has this failure. Any solution for this problem ?

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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