linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.18-rc4

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Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:03:56 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.18-rc4

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 03:22:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Fairly slow and calm week - which makes me just suspect that the other
> shoe will drop at some point.
> 
> But maybe things are just going really well this release. It's bound
> to happen _occasionally_, after all.
> 
> It's not only a fairly small set of commits, the diffstat is pretty
> small and flat too. The biggest single patch is literally killing off
> a zombie file that had already been deleted - well, renamed, really -
> once, but it didn't know to stay dead, and was resurrected by a merge
> mistake.
> 
> The changes are sprinkled all over, they just aren't all that big:
> arch updates (sound being the bulk of it, but "bulk" really is fairly
> misleading), some driver updates, a couple of filesystem fixes, memory
> management, networking, and some tooling (mainly a couple of
> selftests).
> 

Build results:
	total: 151 pass: 131 fail: 20
Failed builds:
	arm:allnoconfig
	arm:tinyconfig
	h8300:allnoconfig
	h8300:tinyconfig
	h8300:edosk2674_defconfig
	h8300:h8300h-sim_defconfig
	h8300:h8s-sim_defconfig
	m68k:allnoconfig
	m68k:tinyconfig
	m68k_nommu:m5272c3_defconfig
	m68k_nommu:m5307c3_defconfig
	m68k_nommu:m5249evb_defconfig
	m68k_nommu:m5407c3_defconfig
	riscv32:allnoconfig
	riscv32:tinyconfig
	riscv:allnoconfig
	riscv:tinyconfig
	s390:allmodconfig
	sh:allnoconfig
	sh:tinyconfig
Qemu test results:
	total: 489 pass: 486 fail: 3
Failed tests:
	arm:mps2-an385:mps2_defconfig:mps2-an385:initrd
	mcf5208evb:m5208:m5208evb_defconfig:initrd
	xtensa:de212:kc705-nommu:nommu_kc705_defconfig

As far as I can see this is all due to

error: page_alloc.c: undefined reference to `vmalloc_huge'

as already reported.

Guenter