linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgEyzSxTs467NDOVfBSzWvUS6ztcwhiy=M3xog==KBmTw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:50:33 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 12:23, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> And that fix (if it fixes it - I think it will) still leaves the alpha
> allmodconfig build and all the failed tests.
>
> I'll take a look.

Well, the alpha allmodconfig case is apparently

  ERROR: modpost: "iowrite64be" [drivers/crypto/caam/caam_jr.ko] undefined!

which I suspect it just a result of commit beba3771d9e0 ("crypto:
caam: Make CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM dependent of COMPILE_TEST").

IOW, that is almost certainly simply due to better build test
coverage, not a new bug.

But I didn't look into *why* it would fail. We have a comment about
iowrite64be saying

 * These get provided from <asm-generic/iomap.h> since alpha does not
 * select GENERIC_IOMAP.

and I'm not sure why that isn't correct.

I get a feeling that lib/iomap.c is missing a couple of functions, but
didn't look into it a lot.

I suspect Arnd may be the right person to ask. Arnd?

           Linus