Build Failure on linux-next on Power8 machine

[Venkat Rao B]

On Thursday 31 May 2018 04:44 PM, Christophe LEROY wrote:
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> Le 31/05/2018 à 12:38, vrbagal1 a écrit :
>> Greetings!!!
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>> I am observing a build failure on linux-next kernel.
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>> Machine: Power8
>> Platform: PowerNV(Baremetal)
>> Git Tree: 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
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> Which defconfig do you use, or can you give your .config ?
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> Christophe
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Unfortunately I lost it. I  only have complete fail logs. Will that be 
helpful?

Venkat
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>> Below is the build error.
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>> 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
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>> Cheers.
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