Hi Baoquan, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on powerpc/next] [also build test WARNING on s390/features linus/master v5.18-rc1 next-20220408] [cannot apply to tip/x86/core hnaz-mm/master arm64/for-next/core] [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/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Baoquan-He/Convert-vmcore-to-use-an-iov_iter/20220408-170846 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git next config: sh-randconfig-s032-20220408 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220408/202204082128.JKXXDGpa-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: sh4-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.2.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-dirty # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/a5e42962f5c0bea73aa382a2415094b4bd6c6c73 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Baoquan-He/Convert-vmcore-to-use-an-iov_iter/20220408-170846 git checkout a5e42962f5c0bea73aa382a2415094b4bd6c6c73 # save the config file to linux build tree mkdir build_dir COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-11.2.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=sh SHELL=/bin/bash arch/sh/kernel/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c:23:36: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) @@ expected void const *addr @@ got void [noderef] __iomem * @@ arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c:23:36: sparse: expected void const *addr arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c:23:36: sparse: got void [noderef] __iomem * vim +23 arch/sh/kernel/crash_dump.c 13 14 ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(struct iov_iter *iter, unsigned long pfn, 15 size_t csize, unsigned long offset) 16 { 17 void __iomem *vaddr; 18 19 if (!csize) 20 return 0; 21 22 vaddr = ioremap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE); > 23 csize = copy_to_iter(vaddr + offset, csize, iter); -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp