include/linux/tick.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
The !CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON stubs use ktime_add(), ktime_get() and
TICK_NSEC, but tick.h includes neither <linux/ktime.h> nor
<linux/jiffies.h>. Most configurations build only because those
declarations arrive transitively.
Commit 6440966067dc ("cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated()") removed
<linux/cpuset.h> from <linux/sched/isolation.h>. The <linux/cpuset.h>
include chain had been satisfying these declarations before
<linux/tick.h> was parsed. Commit 8aa76aa41589 ("ring-buffer: Use a
housekeeping CPU to wake up waiters") then added
<linux/sched/isolation.h> to ring_buffer.c ahead of any header which
provides them. Neither change is wrong on its own: the failure requires
both and appeared in v7.0.
ARM rpc_defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER fails to build:
$ make ARCH=arm rpc_defconfig
$ ./scripts/config -e FTRACE -e FUNCTION_TRACER
$ make ARCH=arm olddefconfig
$ make ARCH=arm kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
In file included from include/linux/sched/isolation.h:6,
from kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:8:
include/linux/tick.h: In function 'tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer':
include/linux/tick.h:156:9: error: implicit declaration of function
'ktime_add'; did you mean 'size_add'?
include/linux/tick.h:156:19: error: implicit declaration of function
'ktime_get'; did you mean 'time_init'?
include/linux/tick.h:156:32: error: 'TICK_NSEC' undeclared
Include the headers the file actually uses.
Fixes: 8aa76aa41589 ("ring-buffer: Use a housekeeping CPU to wake up waiters")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/tick.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index 1cf4651f09ad..47750ccd1314 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/irqflags.h>
+#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/ktime.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/context_tracking_state.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
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