Hi John, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on linux/master] [also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.8-rc4 next-20200708] [cannot apply to pmladek/for-next] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/John-Ogness/printk-replace-ringbuffer/20200707-230114 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 9ebcfadb0610322ac537dd7aa5d9cbc2b2894c68 config: parisc-randconfig-r004-20200709 (attached as .config) compiler: hppa-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0 reproduce (this is a W=1 build): wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # save the attached .config to linux build tree COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross ARCH=parisc If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): In file included from include/linux/printk.h:7, from include/linux/kernel.h:15, from kernel/printk/printk.c:22: kernel/printk/printk.c: In function 'setup_log_buf': >> include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t' {aka 'unsigned int'} [-Wformat=] 5 | #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */ | ^~~~~~ include/linux/kern_levels.h:11:18: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_SOH' 11 | #define KERN_ERR KERN_SOH "3" /* error conditions */ | ^~~~~~~~ include/linux/printk.h:338:9: note: in expansion of macro 'KERN_ERR' 338 | printk(KERN_ERR pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__) | ^~~~~~~~ kernel/printk/printk.c:1145:3: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_err' 1145 | pr_err("log_buf_len: %lu desc bytes not available\n", | ^~~~~~ vim +5 include/linux/kern_levels.h 314ba3520e513a7 Joe Perches 2012-07-30 4 04d2c8c83d0e3ac Joe Perches 2012-07-30 @5 #define KERN_SOH "\001" /* ASCII Start Of Header */ 04d2c8c83d0e3ac Joe Perches 2012-07-30 6 #define KERN_SOH_ASCII '\001' 04d2c8c83d0e3ac Joe Perches 2012-07-30 7 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org