linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/103] 4.4.70-stable review

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Message-ID: <6caa9abd-c1c1-1873-c9a8-7fd3934020e5@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 06:33:13 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "kernelci.org bot" <bot@...nelci.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuahkh@....samsung.com,
        patches@...nelci.org, ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/103] 4.4.70-stable review

On 05/24/2017 05:58 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:47:13AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 05/24/2017 12:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
>>> 54 passed?  I had a bug here such that all x86 builds were crashing, in
>>> the core tty layer, which seems odd that anything would be able to boot
>>> with this tree...
> 
>> Final qemu test result was
>> 	total: 115 pass: 89 fail: 26
>> with only the x86 and x86_64 images crashing, so this isn't entirely surprising,
>> assuming kernelci does not (yet) run any x86/x86_64 qemu tests.
> 
> Not qemu but it has some physical x86 tests like:
> 
>      https://storage.kernelci.org/stable-rc/linux-4.4.y/v4.4.69-104-g2ebff3b7590b/x86/x86_64_defconfig/lab-collabora/boot-minnowboard-max.html
> 
> which seem to have managed to boot somehow.  It's a minnowboard with no
> video and it's booting to a ramdisk, I don't know if either of those
> helped avoid the issue.
> 
I had another look; it may be related to the configuration. Turns out
I also had crashes in some mips64 and ppc/ppc64 tests, but not all of
them. For example, mips64 big endian crashed, but the same configuration
little endian passed.

I think I'll add some config file variations to my x86 tests.

Guenter