Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 02:10:08 EST


On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 06:27:33AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 1/10/19 5:17 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:52:07AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:40:48AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 03:38:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:07:31PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:30:27PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.14 release.
> > > > > > > There are 170 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 Jan 9 10:43:54 UTC 2019.
> > > > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For v4.19.13-171-gc68ce175c3b8:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Build results:
> > > > > > total: 155 pass: 152 fail: 3
> > > > > > Failed builds:
> > > > > > powerpc:ppc64e_defconfig
> > > > > > powerpc:cell_defconfig
> > > > > > powerpc:maple_defconfig
> > > > > > Qemu test results:
> > > > > > total: 332 pass: 319 fail: 13
> > > > > > Failed tests:
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:nosmp:initrd
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp:initrd
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp:ide:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp:mmc:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp:nvme:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp:scsi[DC395]:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:nosmp:initrd
> > > > > > ppc64:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:smp:initrd
> > > > > > ppc64:ppce500:corenet64_smp_defconfig:e5500:initrd
> > > > > > ppc64:ppce500:corenet64_smp_defconfig:e5500:nvme:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:ppce500:corenet64_smp_defconfig:e5500:mmc:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:ppce500:corenet64_smp_defconfig:e5500:scsi[53C895A]:rootfs
> > > > > > ppc64:ppce500:corenet64_smp_defconfig:e5500:sata-sii3112:rootfs
> > > > >
> > > > > Ugh, I thought this was just the cell build, didn't realize it hit more.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, I've dropped the patch from all queues. Odd that it only causes
> > > > > problems on 4.19.y :(
> > > > >
> > > > I don't know what you dropped, but v4.19.14 fails to build with
> > > > the same error. Did you drop it after the release ?
> > >
> > > No, I should have dropped it before the release. Let me go see what I
> > > messed up...
> >
> > I dropped e1c3743e1a20 ("powerpc/tm: Set MSR[TS] just prior to recheckpoint")
> > from the stable trees, which is what I was told was the commit that was
> > causing the problems by Christoph and Breno (on to: now).
> >
> > Was that not the offending commit? If so, what one was?
> >
> $ git describe
> v4.19.14
> groeck@server:~/src/linux-stable$ git log --oneline v4.19.13.. arch/powerpc/
> a9935a127688 powerpc/tm: Unset MSR[TS] if not recheckpointing
> 34fc09193486 powerpc/fsl: Fix spectre_v2 mitigations reporting
> groeck@server:~/src/linux-stable$
>
> a9935a127688 is the culprit.

Thanks for this, now reverted.

greg k-h