linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/139] 4.19.7-stable review

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Date:   Wed, 5 Dec 2018 11:30:50 -0600
From:   Dan Rue <dan.rue@...aro.org>
To:     Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...aro.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shuah@...nel.org,
        patches@...nelci.org, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/139] 4.19.7-stable review

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 02:44:59PM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> On 12/4/18 8:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.7 release.
> > There are 139 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 Dec  6 10:36:22 UTC 2018.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.7-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-4.19.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> Note: As a consequence of the retpoline backport, we upgraded our
> toolchain that is used to build the kernel and userspace from 7.0 to
> 7.3 (containing retpoline support).

Specifically, we went from Linaro's gcc version 7.1.1 20170707 (Linaro
GCC 7.1-2017.08) to upstream's gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC).

> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> 
> Summary
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> kernel: 4.19.7-rc1
> git repo:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> git branch: linux-4.19.y
> git commit: 987a6da5152c29e37cc11de9a2d10a23a48015c9
> git describe: v4.19.6-140-g987a6da5152c
> Test details:
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.19-oe/build/v4.19.6-140-g987a6da5152c
> 
> 
> No Regressions (compared to build v4.19.6)
> 
> 
> No Fixes (compared to build v4.19.6)
> 
> 
> Ran 20285 total tests in the following environments and test suites.
> 
> Environments
> --------------
> - dragonboard-410c - arm64
> - hi6220-hikey - arm64
> - i386
> - juno-r2 - arm64
> - qemu_arm
> - qemu_arm64
> - qemu_i386
> - qemu_x86_64
> - x15 - arm
> - x86_64
> 
> Test Suites
> -----------
> * boot
> * install-android-platform-tools-r2600
> * kselftest
> * libhugetlbfs
> * ltp-cap_bounds-tests
> * ltp-containers-tests
> * ltp-cve-tests
> * ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
> * ltp-filecaps-tests
> * ltp-fs-tests
> * ltp-fs_bind-tests
> * ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
> * ltp-fsx-tests
> * ltp-hugetlb-tests
> * ltp-io-tests
> * ltp-ipc-tests
> * ltp-math-tests
> * ltp-nptl-tests
> * ltp-pty-tests
> * ltp-sched-tests
> * ltp-securebits-tests
> * ltp-syscalls-tests
> * ltp-timers-tests
> * ltp-open-posix-tests
> * kselftest-vsyscall-mode-native
> * kselftest-vsyscall-mode-none
> 
> --
> Linaro LKFT
> https://lkft.linaro.org