linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.1-rc2

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Message-ID: <20221025162441.GA1128834@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:24:41 -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>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux 6.1-rc2

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 04:03:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Usually rc2 is a pretty quiet week, and it mostly started out
> that way too, but then things took a turn for the strange. End result:
> 6.1-rc2 ended up being unusually large.
> 
> The main reason is fairly benign, though: Mauro had screwed up the
> media tree pull request during the merge window, so rc2 ends up having
> a "oops, here's the part that was missing" moment. Since it had all
> been in linux-next (yes, I checked, so nobody else should try that
> trick), I ended up pulling that missing part during the rc2 week.
> 
> But if you ignore that media tree portion, things look pretty normal for an rc2.
> 
> Anyway, ignoring those media changes, we have a little bit of
> everything in here - arch updates, drivers (gpu, device mapper,
> networking), EFI, some core kernel fixes (mm, scheduler, cgroup,
> networking). The full shortlog is appended (and that shortlog does
> include the media pieces).
> 
> Please do go test,

Build results:
	total: 152 pass: 152 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 499 pass: 499 fail: 0

================

Runtime warnings

powerpc
-------

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: swapper/0/1

Not a new problem (seen as far back as v5.15.y), but fixed by:
    "powerpc/64s: Disable preemption in hash lazy mmu mode"
    "powerpc/64s: Fix hash__change_memory_range preemption warning"
    "powerpc: fix reschedule bug in KUAP-unlocked user copy"

at:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013151647.1857994-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013151647.1857994-2-npiggin@gmail.com/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013151647.1857994-3-npiggin@gmail.com/

================================
WARNING: inconsistent lock state
inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.

Fixed by:
    "powerpc/64s: Add lockdep for HPTE lock"
    "powerpc/64s: make HPTE lock and native_tlbie_lock irq-safe"
    "powerpc/64s: make linear_map_hash_lock a raw spinlock:

at:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013230710.1987253-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013230710.1987253-2-npiggin@gmail.com/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221013230710.1987253-3-npiggin@gmail.com/

Guenter