Hi Andy, I love your patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on akpm-mm/mm-everything] [also build test ERROR on linus/master v5.18 next-20220603] [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/Andy-Shevchenko/kernel-h-Move-sysfs-related-macro-to-sysfs-h/20220606-004344 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-everything config: arm-at91_dt_defconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220606/202206060529.iKPUpMUp-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 11.3.0 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/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/0fad3ce70c6f6736d3913e3238642a056f70b123 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Andy-Shevchenko/kernel-h-Move-sysfs-related-macro-to-sysfs-h/20220606-004344 git checkout 0fad3ce70c6f6736d3913e3238642a056f70b123 # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-11.3.0 make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=arm SHELL=/bin/bash If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): In file included from arch/arm/mm/alignment.c:11: >> include/linux/moduleparam.h:294:13: error: implicit declaration of function 'VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 294 | VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } } | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/moduleparam.h:330:9: note: in expansion of macro '__module_param_call' 330 | __module_param_call("", name, ¶m_ops_##type, &var, perm, -1, 0) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ arch/arm/mm/alignment.c:87:1: note: in expansion of macro 'core_param' 87 | core_param(alignment, ai_usermode, int, 0600); | ^~~~~~~~~~ >> include/linux/moduleparam.h:294:13: error: initializer element is not constant 294 | VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } } | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/moduleparam.h:330:9: note: in expansion of macro '__module_param_call' 330 | __module_param_call("", name, ¶m_ops_##type, &var, perm, -1, 0) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ arch/arm/mm/alignment.c:87:1: note: in expansion of macro 'core_param' 87 | core_param(alignment, ai_usermode, int, 0600); | ^~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/moduleparam.h:294:13: note: (near initialization for '__param_alignment.perm') 294 | VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } } | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/moduleparam.h:330:9: note: in expansion of macro '__module_param_call' 330 | __module_param_call("", name, ¶m_ops_##type, &var, perm, -1, 0) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ arch/arm/mm/alignment.c:87:1: note: in expansion of macro 'core_param' 87 | core_param(alignment, ai_usermode, int, 0600); | ^~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors vim +/VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS +294 include/linux/moduleparam.h 91d35dd93e14c3 Ivan Kokshaysky 2008-02-13 284 ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 285 /* This is the fundamental function for registering boot/module 546970bc6afc7f Rusty Russell 2010-08-11 286 parameters. */ 91f9d330cc1493 Jani Nikula 2014-08-27 287 #define __module_param_call(prefix, name, ops, arg, perm, level, flags) \ 9774a1f54f173a Alexey Dobriyan 2006-12-06 288 /* Default value instead of permissions? */ \ 22e48eaf587d04 Jan Beulich 2007-10-16 289 static const char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \ 91d35dd93e14c3 Ivan Kokshaysky 2008-02-13 290 static struct kernel_param __moduleparam_const __param_##name \ fe2f4fe139b321 Johan Hovold 2020-11-23 291 __used __section("__param") \ fe2f4fe139b321 Johan Hovold 2020-11-23 292 __aligned(__alignof__(struct kernel_param)) \ b51d23e4e9fea6 Dan Streetman 2015-06-17 293 = { __param_str_##name, THIS_MODULE, ops, \ b51d23e4e9fea6 Dan Streetman 2015-06-17 @294 VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perm), level, flags, { arg } } ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 295 -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp