Build Failure on linux-next on Power8 machine

[Christophe LEROY]

Le 31/05/2018 à 12:38, vrbagal1 a écrit :
> Greetings!!!
> 
> 
> I am observing a build failure on linux-next kernel.
> 
> Machine: Power8
> Platform: PowerNV(Baremetal)
> Git Tree: 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

Which defconfig do you use, or can you give your .config ?

Christophe


> 
> Below is the build error.
> 
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [kernel/umh.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [kernel/fork.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h:30:0,
> 14:20:48                  from ./include/linux/highmem.h:35,
> 14:20:48                  from ./include/linux/pagemap.h:11,
> 14:20:48                  from security/commoncap.c:19:
> 14:20:48 ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/fixmap.h:52:2: error: overflow in 
> enumeration values
> 14:20:48   FIX_KMAP_BEGIN, /* reserved pte's for temporary kernel 
> mappings */
> 14:20:48   ^
> 14:20:48 make[2]: *** [kernel/sched/swait.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [mm/page_alloc.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [kernel/sched] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make: *** [mm] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [kernel/exit.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [security/commoncap.o] Error 1
> 14:20:48 make[1]: *** [fs/kernfs] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make: *** [fs] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make: *** [security] Error 2
> 14:20:48 make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> 
> Cheers.