linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/36] 4.4.196-stable review

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Date:   Mon, 7 Oct 2019 21:49:54 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/36] 4.4.196-stable review

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:16:51PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>On 10/7/19 4:07 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:49:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:53:55AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>On 10/6/19 10:18 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.196 release.
>>>>> There are 36 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 Tue 08 Oct 2019 05:07:10 PM UTC.
>>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>powerpc:defconfig fails to build.
>>>>
>>>>arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c: In function ‘eeh_handle_normal_event’:
>>>>arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:678:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘eeh_for_each_pe’; did you mean ‘bus_for_each_dev’?
>>>>
>>>>It has a point:
>>>>
>>>>... HEAD is now at 13cac61d31df Linux 4.4.196-rc1
>>>>$ git grep eeh_for_each_pe
>>>>arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:       eeh_for_each_pe(pe, tmp_pe)
>>>>arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:                               eeh_for_each_pe(pe, tmp_pe)
>>>>
>>>>Caused by commit 3fb431be8de3a ("powerpc/eeh: Clear stale EEH_DEV_NO_HANDLER flag").
>>>>Full report will follow later.
>>>
>>>Thanks for letting me know, I've dropped this from the queue now and
>>>pushed out a -rc2 with that removed.
>>>
>>>Sasha, I thought your builder would have caught stuff like this?
>>
>>Interesting, the 4.4 build fails for me with vanilla 4.4 LTS kernel
>>(which is why this was missed):
>>
>>  AS      arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.o
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1599: Warning: invalid register expression
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1640: Warning: invalid register expression
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:839: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:840: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:864: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
>>arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:865: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
>>scripts/Makefile.build:375: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o' failed
>>
>
>Is this allmodconfig ? That is correct - it won't build in 4.4.y, and it would not be
>easy to fix.

Oh, interesting, so no allmodconfig? I've disabled everything but
allmodconfig on a few architectures in an attempt to save to build time.

--
Thanks,
Sasha