linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/115] 5.4.215-rc2 review

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Message-ID: <CADVatmNvu30rs97g9xt6PAyXzR5QyitgcK2w8s7f1zybrBWaLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:17:13 +0100
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, slade@...dewatkins.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/115] 5.4.215-rc2 review

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 1:44 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:18:14PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 22:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.215 release.
> > > There are 115 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 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:35:25 +0000.
> > > 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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.215-rc2.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Results from Linaro's test farm.
> > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> >
> > Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> >
> > NOTE:
> > Following powerpc mpc83xx defconfig with new gcc-12 build warnings.
> >
> > kernel/extable.c: In function 'sort_main_extable':
> > kernel/extable.c:37:59: warning: comparison between two arrays [-Warray-compare]
> >    37 |         if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table >
> > __start___ex_table) {
> >       |                                                           ^
> > kernel/extable.c:37:59: note: use '&__stop___ex_table[0] >
> > &__start___ex_table[0]' to compare the addresses
> > arch/powerpc/boot/main.c: In function 'prep_initrd':
> > arch/powerpc/boot/main.c:107:25: warning: comparison between two
> > arrays [-Warray-compare]
> >   107 |         if (_initrd_end > _initrd_start) {
> >       |                         ^
>
> Is this a new warning?
>
> I don't think anyone is attempting to build 5.4 with gcc12 just yet...

I build with both gcc-11 and gcc-12 and in my tests only arm64
allmodconfig failed to build. Need to find out the mainline commits
for it.
powerpc allmodconfig build passed with gcc-12 for me, did not have the
warning which Naresh mentioned.


-- 
Regards
Sudip