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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:39:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:31:56AM +0200, 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.
> > 
> Confirmed; all is good now.

Wonderful, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h