Hi tangmeng, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on tip/timers/core] [also build test ERROR on linus/master kees/for-next/pstore v5.17-rc1 next-20220128] [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/tangmeng/kernel-time-move-timer-sysctls-to-its-own-file/20220128-145647 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 35e13e9da9afbce13c1d36465504ece4e65f24fe config: arc-randconfig-r012-20220128 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220128/202201281620.Rwng44TW-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/5b925ed59a284ee735fd46cb2afa74858509887b git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review tangmeng/kernel-time-move-timer-sysctls-to-its-own-file/20220128-145647 git checkout 5b925ed59a284ee735fd46cb2afa74858509887b # 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 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/time/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): kernel/time/timer.c: In function 'init_timers': >> kernel/time/timer.c:2047:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'timer_sysctl_init'; did you mean 'sysctl_init'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 2047 | timer_sysctl_init(); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | sysctl_init In file included from include/linux/perf_event.h:25, from include/linux/trace_events.h:10, from include/trace/syscall.h:7, from include/linux/syscalls.h:88, from kernel/time/timer.c:35: At top level: arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h:126:27: warning: 'arc_pmu_cache_map' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 126 | static const unsigned int arc_pmu_cache_map[C(MAX)][C(OP_MAX)][C(RESULT_MAX)] = { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h:91:27: warning: 'arc_pmu_ev_hw_map' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 91 | static const char * const arc_pmu_ev_hw_map[] = { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors vim +2047 kernel/time/timer.c 2041 2042 void __init init_timers(void) 2043 { 2044 init_timer_cpus(); 2045 posix_cputimers_init_work(); 2046 open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq); > 2047 timer_sysctl_init(); 2048 } 2049 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@xxxxxxxxxxxx