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

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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:33:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     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 10:23:00AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the explaination.

How come you don't enable KASAN?  Any other options you all should be
enabling to get better test coverage that you are not?

Are you doing a 'make allmodconfig' type build for these arches?

thanks,

greg k-h