linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.1 000/127] 4.1.17-stable review

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Message-ID: <20160131192039.GC23698@kroah.com>
Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:20:39 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	shuah.kh@...sung.com, info@...nelci.org,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.1 000/127] 4.1.17-stable review

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:17:10AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 28 January 2016 at 03:14, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> > On 01/27/2016 10:12 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >> -------------------------
> >> NOTE:
> >>    There are still a lot of pending stable patches in the queue, well
> >>    over 400 of them to be specific, so some of your favorite/pet patches
> >>    might not be included in these releases.  Please be patient as I dig
> >>    out from this backlog over the next few weeks.  If there are specific
> >>    patches that you just _must_ have included in a stable release soon,
> >>    please let me know.
> >> -------------------------
> >>
> >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.1.17 release.
> >> There are 127 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> >> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> >> let me know.
> >>
> >> Responses should be made by Fri Jan 29 18:07:17 UTC 2016.
> >> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >>
> >
> > Build results:
> >         total: 139 pass: 138 fail: 1
> > Failed builds:
> >         arm64:allmodconfig
> >
> > Qemu test results:
> >         total: 95 pass: 93 fail: 2
> > Failed tests:
> >         arm64:smp:defconfig
> >         arm64:nosmp:defconfig
> >
> > arm64:allmodconfig fails to build due to a crash in recordmcount, which
> > is caused by 'recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into
> > nop'.
> > That bug can be fixed by applying upstream commit c84da8b9ad37
> > ("recordmcount:
> > Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount"). However, that does not help,
> > because after applying this patch the build is then still broken due to
> > 'arm64: mm: use correct mapping granularity under DEBUG_RODAT'.
> >
> 
> Apologies for not spotting that when the patches were sent out for
> stable review.
> 'arm64: mm: use correct mapping granularity under DEBUG_RODAT' needs a
> special version for -stable which #defines SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE, since
> that is a recent invention.
> 
> I will follow up with a new patch, please disregard this version in
> the mean time

Ok, now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h