reproduce (this is a W=1 build): # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git/commit/?id=521bc0e5286c93eb4be981d22a6c05043a78b555 git remote add rostedt-trace https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git git fetch --no-tags rostedt-trace pmem-on-reserve-mem-fail git checkout 521bc0e5286c93eb4be981d22a6c05043a78b555 # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=i386 olddefconfig make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/trace/