Hi Muchun, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on hnaz-mm/master] [also build test ERROR on linus/master next-20220323] [cannot apply to mcgrof/sysctl-next v5.17] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Muchun-Song/add-hugetlb_free_vmemmap-sysctl/20220323-205902 base: https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm master config: arc-randconfig-r043-20220323 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220324/202203240546.MHJzsBaO-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: arc-elf-gcc (GCC) 11.2.0 reproduce (this is a W=1 build): wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/64211be650af117819368a26d7b86c33df5deea4 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Muchun-Song/add-hugetlb_free_vmemmap-sysctl/20220323-205902 git checkout 64211be650af117819368a26d7b86c33df5deea4 # save the config file to linux build tree mkdir build_dir COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-11.2.0 make.cross O=build_dir ARCH=arc prepare If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): >> cc1: fatal error: cannot open 'kernel/bounds.s' for writing: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:127: kernel/bounds.s] Error 1 make[2]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors. make[1]: *** [Makefile:1261: prepare0] Error 2 make[1]: Target 'prepare' not remade because of errors. make: *** [Makefile:226: __sub-make] Error 2 make: Target 'prepare' not remade because of errors. -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp