linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/128] 5.15.138-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <9b3f7dc9-11ac-4eb2-8d51-4fc6a34a8951@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2023 21:03:52 +0530
From:   Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        mizhang@...gle.com
Cc:     patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de, conor@...nel.org,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/128] 5.15.138-rc1 review

Hi Greg,

On 06/11/23 8:24 pm, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On 06/11/23 6:32 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.138 release.
>> There are 128 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, 08 Nov 2023 13:02:46 +0000.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
> 
> I am seeing a build failure with perf:
> 
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c: In function evlist__add_aux_dummy:
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c:266:31: error: implicit declaration of function 
> evlist__dummy_event; did you mean evlist__add_sb_eventâ€™? 
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>    266 |         struct evsel *evsel = evlist__dummy_event(evlist);
>        |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>        |                               evlist__add_sb_event
> 
> 
> I think we should drop these three commits:
> 
> 20a5799cae7dc perf evlist: Avoid frequency mode for the dummy event
> 7de783c81c7e7 perf tools: Get rid of evlist__add_on_all_cpus()
> 141ce9207068e perf evlist: Add evlist__add_dummy_on_all_cpus()
> 

I have reverted these three commits locally and triggered the tests.

No problems seen on x86_64 and aarch64 with our testing.

Tested-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>

Thanks,
Harshit


> Backport was requested here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAL715WLTjMGQrhm6wWqFSeL_Oq-HzoQd5CqewvLRLv0Xbnibgw@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Harshit
> 
>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.138-rc1.gz
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h