reproduce (this is a W=1 build): # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?id=eaa00409fb18efd5ba35159657893d158d91faa4 git remote add ardb https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git git fetch --no-tags ardb arm64-combine-module-section-allocations git checkout eaa00409fb18efd5ba35159657893d158d91faa4 # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/