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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:59:06 +0900
From:   Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
To:     Ian Cowan <ian@linux.cowan.aero>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, cl@linux.com,
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Subject: Re: include: linux: slab: kmalloc_trace undefined when compiling
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 08:21:14PM -0500, Ian Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 05:11:27PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> Yes, I did build the entire kernel already and then I'm just trying to
> rebuild that module.
> 
> In `include/linux/slab.h` if I remove the lines between `#ifdef
> CONFIG_TRACING` and `#else` (lines 473-480) and then the corresponding
> `#endif` and leave lines 481-499, I'm able to compile that module
> without issue.

I don't get what the problem is.
In case kmalloc[_node]_trace() is undefined, it's replaced with kmem_cache_alloc[_node]. 

Is the kernel built with same config on tree?

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Thanks,
Hyeonggon