Re: Linux 3.19-rc1 - merge window closed

From: David Drysdale
Date: Mon Dec 22 2014 - 18:19:14 EST


On 22 Dec 2014 18:02, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 21:56 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:11:39 -0800 "Nicholas A. Bellinger"
<nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Just hit the following build failure with CONFIG_AUDIT=y:
> >> > >
> >> > > arch/x86/ia32/audit.c: In function âia32_classify_syscallâ:
> >> > > arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:38:7: error: â__NR_execveatâ undeclared
(first use in this function)
> >> > > arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:38:7: note: each undeclared identifier
is reported only once for each function it appears in
> >> > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/audit.o] Error 1
> >> > > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/ia32] Error 2
> >> > > make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
> >> > > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >> >
> >
> > Yep, post 'make mrproper' builds with CONFIG_AUDIT=y don't hit this
> > failure.
> >
> > The previous build was with v3.18-rc2 btw.
>
> Hmm. So it seems that there is something wrong with the dependency
> generation for the generated header files. Possibly limited to just
> the uapi files.
>
> But I can't seem to recreate it even by trying to first build 3.18-rc2
> and then switching to 3.19-rc1. So there's something
> not-very-straightforward going on, possibly including some nasty race
> in the Makefiles.
>
> Linus

When this occurred previously, I also failed to reproduce it. However, it appeared (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/542) to specifically involve a stale copy of arch/x86/include/generated/asm/unistd_32.h.

David
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