Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/403] 5.4.297-rc1 review

[Anders Roxell]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 09:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 03:46:37PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On 26/08/2025 12:05, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.297 release.
> > > There are 403 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 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:08:17 +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-5.4.297-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-5.4.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > -------------
> > > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> >
> > ...
> > > Prashant Malani <pmalani@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >      cpufreq: CPPC: Mark driver with NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS flag
> >
> >
> > The above commit is causing the following build failure ...
> >
> >  drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c:410:40: error: ‘CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS’ undeclared here (not in a function)
> >   410 |         .flags = CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS | CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS,
> >       |                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >  make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:262: drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.o] Error 1
> >
> >
> > This is seen with ARM64 but I am guessing will be seen for
> > other targets too.
>
> Thanks, somehow this missed my build tests.  I've dropped it from the
> tree now and will push out a -rc2.

[for the record]

We also see the following build regression on ARM64 with gcc-12 and clang-20.

Validation is in progress for RC2.


Build Regression: 5.4.297-rc1 arm64 use of undeclared identifier
CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>


## Build
* kernel: 5.4.297-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git commit: 8387e34ec6fea83fa8bf03ffa1c8c0144d801c14
* git describe: v5.4.296-404-g8387e34ec6fe
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y/build/v5.4.296-404-g8387e34ec6fe

## Test Regressions (compared to v5.4.295-145-g6d1abaaa322e)
* arm64, build
  - clang-20-defconfig
  - clang-20-defconfig-00b6e174
  - clang-20-lkftconfig
  - clang-20-lkftconfig-no-kselftest-frag
  - clang-nightly-defconfig
  - clang-nightly-defconfig-00b6e174
  - clang-nightly-lkftconfig
  - gcc-12-lkftconfig

/builds/linux/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c:410:33: error: use of
undeclared identifier 'CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS'
  410 |         .flags = CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS | CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS,
      |                                        ^
1 error generated.
make[3]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:262:
drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.o] Error 1


log file: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/api/testruns/29678460/log_file/
Build detailes:
https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y/v5.4.296-404-g8387e34ec6fe/build/clang-20-lkftconfig/


## Metric Regressions (compared to v5.4.295-145-g6d1abaaa322e)

## Test Fixes (compared to v5.4.295-145-g6d1abaaa322e)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v5.4.295-145-g6d1abaaa322e)

## Test result summary
total: 22051, pass: 15817, fail: 1724, skip: 4433, xfail: 77

## Build Summary
* arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 131 total, 131 passed, 0 failed
* arm64: 31 total, 8 passed, 23 failed
* i386: 18 total, 13 passed, 5 failed
* mips: 25 total, 25 passed, 0 failed
* parisc: 3 total, 0 passed, 3 failed
* powerpc: 26 total, 26 passed, 0 failed
* riscv: 9 total, 3 passed, 6 failed
* s390: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed
* sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 27 total, 27 passed, 0 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-exec
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-x86
* kunit
* lava
* libhugetlbfs
* log-parser-build-clang
* log-parser-build-gcc
* log-parser-test
* ltp-capability
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-cpuhotplug
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-dio
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* perf
* rcutorture

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