This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests/resctrl: Fix compilation issues for other global variables to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-resctrl-fix-compilation-issues-for-other-g.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c116fb78d38cb6829e860419ed5d43a9a1027978 Author: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 17 02:22:37 2021 +0000 selftests/resctrl: Fix compilation issues for other global variables [ Upstream commit 896016d2ad051811ff9c9c087393adc063322fbc ] Reinette reported following compilation issue on Fedora 32, gcc version 10.1.1 /usr/bin/ld: resctrl_tests.o:<src_dir>/resctrl.h:65: multiple definition of `bm_pid'; cache.o:<src_dir>/resctrl.h:65: first defined here Other variables are ppid, tests_run, llc_occup_path, is_amd. Compiler isn't happy because these variables are defined globally in two .c files but are not declared as extern. To fix issues for the global variables, declare them as extern. Chang Log: - Split this patch from v4's patch 1 (Shuah). Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h index 959c71e39bdc..12b77182cb44 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h @@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ struct resctrl_val_param { int (*setup)(int num, ...); }; -pid_t bm_pid, ppid; -int tests_run; +extern pid_t bm_pid, ppid; +extern int tests_run; -char llc_occup_path[1024]; -bool is_amd; +extern char llc_occup_path[1024]; +extern bool is_amd; bool check_resctrlfs_support(void); int filter_dmesg(void);