Hi Umesh, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on drm-intel/for-linux-next] [also build test WARNING on drm-tip/drm-tip next-20200717] [cannot apply to linus/master v5.8-rc5] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Umesh-Nerlige-Ramappa/Allow-privileged-user-to-map-the-OA-buffer/20200718-080929 base: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel for-linux-next config: i386-randconfig-s002-20200717 (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-14) 9.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.2-49-g707c5017-dirty # save the attached .config to linux build tree make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=i386 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c:3426:5: sparse: sparse: symbol 'i915_perf_mmap' was not declared. Should it be static? Please review and possibly fold the followup patch. --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org