linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/104] 4.9.54-stable review

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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:23:00 -0500
From:   Dan Rue <dan.rue@...aro.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Tom Gall <tom.gall@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>, patches@...nelci.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/104] 4.9.54-stable review

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:11:55AM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 03:37:43PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >> kernel: 4.9.54-rc1
> > >> git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> > >> git branch: linux-4.9.y
> > >> git commit: 1852eae92c460813692808234da35d142a405ab7
> > >> git describe: v4.9.53
> > >> Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.53
> > 
> > >>
> > >> No regressions (compared to build v4.9.52-65-gaceea42c68d9)
> > >
> > > How did your arm64 test build?  There was a build regression in the -rc1
> > > release, are you sure you actually ran the correct image?
> > 
> > So the header in that report was wrong. That's a c/n/p error on my
> > part. I was in a rush to get you data before I was going to be gone
> > for the day on Sat and wanting to get what we had into your hands
> > before the Sunday deadline.
> > 
> > The test results was for the RC as of commit
> > 0e59436504287cddb9663857ae69c100b55f5e85
> > 
> > If you want to see the 'ugly' raw data it's all here :
> > https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.53-105-g0e5943650428/
> 
> I still don't understand.  That _build_ should have failed, how did it
> succeed enough to actually run the tests at all?

It looks like the build failure shown at
http://arm-soc.lixom.net/buildlogs/stable-rc/v4.9.53-105-g0e59436/
requires CONFIG_KASAN to be set, which we do not set. All the other
configs built, including ours, which can be seen at
http://snapshots.linaro.org/openembedded/lkft/morty/hikey/rpb/linux-stable-rc-4.9/67/defconfig

Dan