linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.15-rc4

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Message-ID: <1dcded94-6576-41b9-bf6a-ca51e49ba35a@roeck-us.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:55:29 -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 6.15-rc4

On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:16:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So let's see if this rc ends up avoiding any silly issues - things
> certainly look pretty normal, and there were no hurried last-minute
> changes this week due to system upgrades. And the locking mishap with
> local_trylock reported by phoronix (which didn't trigger on all
> compiler versions, so you saw it or not depending on what compiler you
> used) also got sorted out.
> 
> In fact, we seem to have reached the point where much of the
> discussion is about future changes. Which tends to be a good sign.
> 
> The rc4 diffstat looks pretty good - mostly flat with some (untimely,
> but still fairly small) openrisc updates and bcachefs
> case-insensitivity patches standing out. But the rest looks like just
> a lot of tiny fixes.
> 
> And by "a lot" I don't even mean anything excessive - it's all very
> normal for the rc4 timeframe.
> 
> Please do keep testing,
> 

Build results:
	total: 159 pass: 158 fail: 1
Failed builds:
	x86_64:allyesconfig
Qemu test results:
	total: 635 pass: 635 fail: 0
Unit test results:
	pass: 594138 fail: 0

with the known x86_64:allyesconfig build failure.

Error log:
x86_64-linux-ld: kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE

Guenter