Hi Attilio, FYI, there are new sparse warnings show up in tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git linux-next head: 3153e9a8aa96bd1f11988c7c70d9372f00b615a1 commit: 73090f8993a40a2f67fed1ab866a928c68cd3765 [4/27] x86: Remove base argument from x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start All sparse warnings: + arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c:29:13: sparse: symbol 'x86_init_pgd_start_noop' was not declared. Should it be static? + arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c:30:13: sparse: symbol 'x86_init_pgd_done_noop' was not declared. Should it be static? arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c:31:12: sparse: symbol 'iommu_init_noop' was not declared. Should it be static? arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c:32:6: sparse: symbol 'iommu_shutdown_noop' was not declared. Should it be static? vim +29 arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c 19 #include 20 #include 21 #include 22 #include 23 #include 24 #include 25 #include 26 27 void __cpuinit x86_init_noop(void) { } 28 void __init x86_init_uint_noop(unsigned int unused) { } > 29 void __init x86_init_pgd_start_noop(void) { } 30 void __init x86_init_pgd_done_noop(pgd_t *unused) { } 31 int __init iommu_init_noop(void) { return 0; } 32 void iommu_shutdown_noop(void) { } 33 34 /* 35 * The platform setup functions are preset with the default functions 36 * for standard PC hardware. 37 */ 38 struct x86_init_ops x86_init __initdata = { 39 Please consider folding the attached diff :-) --- 0-DAY kernel build testing backend Open Source Technology Centre Fengguang Wu Intel Corporation