Re: [PATCH 4.7 00/69] 4.7.6-stable review

[Kevin Hilman]

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:22:06AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> kernelci.org bot <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > stable-rc boot: 105 boots: 1 failed, 100 passed with 4 offline (v4.7.5-70-g64e4c0f6d4b1)
>> >
>> > Full Boot Summary: https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/stable-rc/kernel/v4.7.5-70-g64e4c0f6d4b1/
>> > Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/kernel/v4.7.5-70-g64e4c0f6d4b1/
>> >
>> > Tree: stable-rc
>> > Branch: local/linux-4.7.y
>> > Git Describe: v4.7.5-70-g64e4c0f6d4b1
>> > Git Commit: 64e4c0f6d4b12abd1966ac9ad2082a0815a3d0eb
>> > Git URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
>> > Tested: 32 unique boards, 12 SoC families, 20 builds out of 205
>> >
>> > Boot Failure Detected: https://kernelci.org/boot/?v4.7.5-70-g64e4c0f6d4b1&fail
>> >
>> > arm:
>> >
>> >     multi_v7_defconfig+CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y:
>> >         at91-sama5d3_xplained: 1 failed lab
>> 
>> This looks like a legit new failure, and the same thing is happening on
>> stable-rc/linux-4.4.y.
>> 
>> I've asked the lab with this board to have a closer look,
>
> Thanks, I don't see anything obvious in the patch series that would have
> affected this board, but given the PROVE_LOCKING option, maybe it was a
> more generic change that is causing the issue.

Since the kernelci email report went out, another lab reported a PASS
for this board on the same defconfig, so this particular FAIL is likely
a lab-specific issue, so I wouldn't let this block stable release.

FYI... I have a few other boards[1] that are failing in mainline with
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, and I've yet to get to the root of the problem.

My best guess currently is that those seem to be related to the
bootloader/boot-firmware not being able to deal with large zImage
(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING makes a bit bigger image.)

I don't know the closed bootloader/boot-firmware on these qualcomm
platforms, so I've asked the qcom maintainers for some help.

Kevin

[1] https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/mainline/kernel/v4.8-rc8-13-g53061afee43b/