reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-39-gce1a6720-dirty # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/47430caa569937c8809ffea0f6e2063530a00e03 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Uros-Bizjak/x86-percpu-Use-C-for-arch_raw_cpu_ptr/20231011-004532 git checkout 47430caa569937c8809ffea0f6e2063530a00e03 # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 olddefconfig make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash init/