linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/41] 4.4.90-stable review

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Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2017 09:55:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Tom Gall <tom.gall@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        shuahkh@....samsung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/41] 4.4.90-stable review

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:30:14PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 3, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.90 release.
> > There are 41 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 Thu Oct  5 11:42:00 UTC 2017.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.90-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Test results from the linaro linux kernel functional test farm:
> 
> kernel: 4.4.90-rc1
> git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> git branch: linux-4.4.y
> git commit: 255b4a073a820d2f46a1ce1740f1a9be3de9661a
> git describe: v4.4.89-42-g255b4a073a82
> Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.4-oe/build/v4.4.89-42-g255b4a073a82
> 
> No regressions (compared to build v4.4.89-30-gb547584d016b)
> 
> Boards, architectures and test suites:
> -------------------------------------
> 
> dell-poweredge-r200 - x86_64 
> * boot - 1 pass
> * kselftest - 44 pass - 24 known failures
> * libhugetlbfs - 76 pass - 1 skip
> * ltp-syscalls-tests - 941 pass - 175 skip - 11 known failures 
> 
> 
> And as a separate but related report, we have HiKey (arm64) results. These are separate because there are some out of tree patches that didn’t quite make 4.4 back in the day, thus for this board the kernel is a blend of the LTS RC + some platform patches.
> 
> Summary
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> kernel: 4.4.90-rc1
> git repo: https://git.linaro.org/lkft/arm64-stable-rc.git
> git tag: 4.4.90-rc1-hikey-20171003
> git commit: 8b0848771d885b6030233931b2d2039382a1cf73
> git describe: v4.4.89-352-g8b0848771d88
> Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linaro-hikey-stable-rc-4.4-oe/build/v4.4.89-352-g8b0848771d88
> 
> 
> No regressions (compared to build v4.4.89-340-ga6279f8aa398)
> 
> Boards, architectures and test suites:
> -------------------------------------
> 
> hi6220-hikey - arm64 
> * boot - 1 pass
> * kselftest - 32 pass - 1 skip - 21 known failures
> * libhugetlbfs - 90 pass - 1 skip
> * ltp-syscalls-tests - 960 pass - 138 skip - 2 known failures

Nice, thanks for letting me know, but that seems like a lot of "known
failures" :(

Any chance you can add a beaglebone black to your 4.4 testing to give it
some "native arm" test support?  That should run a "stock" 4.4 kernel,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h