linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/434] 5.4.7-stable review

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Message-ID: <20191230194204.GB1880685@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:42:04 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org,
        patches@...nelci.org, ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/434] 5.4.7-stable review

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:08:49PM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 06:45:22PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 10:34:37AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 06:20:53PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.7 release.
> > > > There are 434 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.
> > > 
> > > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> > > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing all of these and letting me know.
> > 
> > But didn't you add perf build testing to your builds?  That should have
> > broken things, so I am guessing not :(
> 
> We do build (and run) perf, and it worked for us. Which patch was the
> problem? I can go look at why our config didn't hit the offending
> code/build path.

See the thread from Guenter and from others on the perf patches
themselves in this release for the details.

thanks,

greg k-h