Re: [PATCH 5.12 000/677] 5.12.4-rc1 review

From: Naresh Kamboju
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 16:12:24 EST


On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 23:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:53:04PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 21:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.12.4 release.
> > > There are 677 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 Fri, 14 May 2021 14:47:09 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.12.4-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-5.12.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> >
> > MIPS Clang build regression detected.
> > MIPS gcc-10,9 and 8 build PASS.
> >
> > > Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > MIPS: Reinstate platform `__div64_32' handler
> >
> > mips clang build breaks on stable rc 5.4 .. 5.12 due to below warnings / errors
> > - mips (defconfig) with clang-12
> > - mips (tinyconfig) with clang-12
> > - mips (allnoconfig) with clang-12
> >
> > make --silent --keep-going --jobs=8
> > O=/home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current ARCH=mips
> > CROSS_COMPILE=mips-linux-gnu- 'HOSTCC=sccache clang' 'CC=sccache
> > clang'
> > kernel/time/hrtimer.c:318:2: error: couldn't allocate output register
> > for constraint 'x'
> > do_div(tmp, (u32) div);
> > ^
> > include/asm-generic/div64.h:243:11: note: expanded from macro 'do_div'
> > __rem = __div64_32(&(n), __base); \
> > ^
> > arch/mips/include/asm/div64.h:74:11: note: expanded from macro '__div64_32'
> > __asm__("divu $0, %z1, %z2" \
> > ^
> > 1 error generated.
>
> Does this also show up in Linus's tree? The same MIPS patch is there as
> well from what I can tell.

No.
Linus's tree builds MIPS clang successfully.

- Naresh