Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/217] 3.16.35-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 04/30/2016 12:44 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 21:16 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 04/26/2016 04:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.35 release.
> > > There are 217 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Sat Apr 30 22:00:00 UTC 2016.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > Updated build and test results:
> >
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 137 pass: 135 fail: 2
> > Failed builds:
> > 	arc:allnoconfig
> > 	arm64:allmodconfig
> >
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 97 pass: 94 fail: 3
> > Failed tests:
> > 	arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:zynq-zc706

Update:

This failure was sporadic and easily fixed by adding "rootwait"
to the command line options.

Guenter

> > 	arm64:smp:defconfig
> > 	arm64:nosmp:defconfig
> >
> > This is after dropping a couple of builds and qemu tests which are
> > known to be bad in 3.16, and after some fixes in the tree.
> >
> > The arm64 build failure is due to gcc5, which needs a patch from a
> > later kernel. The other failures are new and did not occur in 3.16.7.
> >
> > A bisect of the arm64 qemu failure points to commit f98ab7a1e78
> > ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't
> > make any progress"). Unfortunately, that is inconclusive, since there
> > have been several follow-up commits trying to fix it. After reverting
> > all those commits, the test still fails.
>
> Thank you very much for the analysis.  I'll look at the failures later
> as none of them appear to be related to the current patch series.
>
> Ben.