Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/28] 4.4.64-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 04/26/2017 01:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:27:18PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 04/25/2017 08:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.64 release.
> > > There are 28 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 Apr 27 15:08:00 UTC 2017.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 149 pass: 144 fail: 5
> > Failed builds:
> > 	powerpc:defconfig
> > 	powerpc:allmodconfig
> > 	powerpc:ppc64e_defconfig
> > 	powerpc:cell_defconfig
> > 	powerpc:maple_defconfig
> >
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 115 pass: 110 fail: 5
> > Failed tests:
> > 	powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:nosmp
> > 	powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp4
> > 	powerpc:pseries:pseries_defconfig
> > 	powerpc:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:nosmp
> > 	powerpc:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:smp
> >
> > As mentioned earlier, the failures are
> >
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S:72: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.localentry'
> >
> > or:
> >
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S:72: Error: .localentry expression for `flush_icache_range' does not evaluate to a constant
> >
> > The error message depends on the compiler / binutils version.
>
> This patch is now dropped, so the ppc builds should now work.

Did you push the change ? My builder didn't pick it up.

Guenter