Hi Shiju,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on v5.6]
[also build test WARNING on next-20200408]
[cannot apply to pm/linux-next pci/next linus/master linux/master]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Shiju-Jose/ACPI-APEI-Add-support-to-notify-non-fatal-HW-errors/20200408-014447
base:    7111951b8d4973bda27ff663f2cf18b663d15b48
reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.1-188-g79f7ac98-dirty
        make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
        make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:210:5: sparse: sparse: symbol 'ghes_gdata_pool_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:715:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:715:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] <asn:4> *
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:715:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:795:25: sparse: sparse: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:795:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache [noderef] <asn:4> *
   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:795:25: sparse:    struct ghes_estatus_cache *

Please review and possibly fold the followup patch.

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