On 11/12/22 16:43, Ian Cowan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 04:34:18PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >> >> On 11/12/22 13:59, Ian Cowan wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 09:21:34AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> Hi-- >>>> >>>> On 11/12/22 08:37, Ian Cowan wrote: >>>>> When compiling drivers (speficially drivers/pci/hotplug), I am receiving >>>>> the following modpost error for both `kmalloc_trace` and >>>>> `kmalloc_node_trace` on the staging/staging-next branch: >>>>> >> >> Ian, what do you mean by "on the staging/staging-next branch"? >> >> What kernel version are you trying to build? >> >> The .config that you sent is for v6.1.0-rc1. > > I am building from the staging repository (gregkh/staging) and my > working branch when building is staging-next. So I am trying to build > from staging and not a particular version. I have also run `make modules_prepare` > and updated the .config per that script. However, when I do build > v6.1.0-rc1 from the main repository (torvalds/linux), I run into the same problem. Have you built the entire kernel already and then you are trying to build only drivers/pci/hotplug? If I build *only* drivers/pci/hotplug, I do get undefined symbols: WARNING: modpost: "strcmp" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "kfree" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "pci_slots_kset" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "acpiphp_unregister_attention" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "acpi_remove_notify_handler" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "sysfs_remove_bin_file" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "acpi_evaluate_object" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "__kmalloc" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "memcpy" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: "acpi_walk_namespace" [drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.ko] undefined! WARNING: modpost: suppressed 14 unresolved symbol warnings because there were too many) but that's understandable since the object files that would contain those symbols have not been built yet. -- ~Randy
