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To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc:     kvm@vger.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
        linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        rcu@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
From:   Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Subject: Set environment variable `KVM` makes build fail
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Dear Linux folks,


Playing with rcutorture 
(`tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/torture.sh`), a Linux kernel 
build failed, because the script sets and exports the environment 
variable `KVM`. I was able to reproduce that manually (on x86_64):

     $ make defconfig
     $ scripts/config -m KVM
     $ scripts/config -m KVM_INTEL
     $ scripts/config -d KVM_AMD
     $ scripts/config -d KVM_XEN
     $ scripts/config -d KVM_MMU_AUDIT
     $ export KVM=XXX
     $ make arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o
     […]
       LINK    /dev/shm/linux-kvm/tools/objtool/objtool
     make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/x86/kvm/XXX/kvm_main.o', 
needed by 'arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o'.  Stop.
     make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: arch/x86/kvm] Error 2
     make: *** [Makefile:1831: arch/x86] Error 2

The directory `arch/x86/kvm/XXX` is created somehow.

Is that expected? Do you know what is going on? I wasn’t able to 
reproduce this with other variables like `SND_HDA` for example.


Kind regards,

Paul