On 13:50 Sun 16 Aug 2020, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>This merge window felt a lot more normal than 5.8, and all the stats
>confirm thar it seems to be the usual size.
>
>The only thing that stands out is yet another AMD GPU header file
>drop, but by now that almost counts as "usual" too. It does mean that
>the diff stats are dominated by those AMD updates, and almost exactly
>half of the diff is under drivers/gpu/drm/amd/, but it's the usual big
>register definitions (presumably once more generated from the hw
>files) and doesn't really matter in the big picture.
>
>If you ignore that, stats look very normal. Even ignoring the AMD GPU
>updates, drivers are still about 60% of the patch, and it's all over.
>Outside of drivers, it's the usual mix of architecture updates,
>documentation, core networking, tooling and filesystem updates.
>
>"Normal size" is still obviously pretty big, so the appended is just
>my merge-log as usual. For details, dig down into whichever area
>excites you in the git tree...
>
>                      Linus
>

I am scared that I might have missed something very obvious ...am I?? And the build abort...take a peek..

In file included from ./include/linux/scatterlist.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/blkdev.h:25,
                 from ./include/linux/blk-cgroup.h:23,
                 from ./include/linux/writeback.h:14,
                 from ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:22,
                 from ./include/linux/swap.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/suspend.h:5,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:13:
./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h: In function ‘outb_p’:
./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:292:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘slow_down_io’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  slow_down_io();       \
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:334:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILDIO’
 BUILDIO(b, b, char)
 ^~~~~~~
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h:10,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/suspend.h:5,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:19:
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h: In function ‘__set_tss_desc’:
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h:186:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘write_gdt_entry’; did you mean ‘find_get_entry’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  write_gdt_entry(d, entry, &tss, DESC_TSS);
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  find_get_entry
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h: In function ‘force_reload_TR’:
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h:296:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘load_TR_desc’; did you mean ‘local_dec’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  load_TR_desc();
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
  local_dec
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h: In function ‘clear_LDT’:
./arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h:358:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘set_ldt’; did you mean ‘set_bit’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  set_ldt(NULL, 0);
  ^~~~~~~
  set_bit
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:117: arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1

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