Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/103] 4.4.70-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 05/24/2017 05:58 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:47:13AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 05/24/2017 12:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > > 54 passed?  I had a bug here such that all x86 builds were crashing, in
> > > the core tty layer, which seems odd that anything would be able to boot
> > > with this tree...
>
> > Final qemu test result was
> > 	total: 115 pass: 89 fail: 26
> > with only the x86 and x86_64 images crashing, so this isn't entirely surprising,
> > assuming kernelci does not (yet) run any x86/x86_64 qemu tests.
>
> Not qemu but it has some physical x86 tests like:
>
>      https://storage.kernelci.org/stable-rc/linux-4.4.y/v4.4.69-104-g2ebff3b7590b/x86/x86_64_defconfig/lab-collabora/boot-minnowboard-max.html
>
> which seem to have managed to boot somehow.  It's a minnowboard with no
> video and it's booting to a ramdisk, I don't know if either of those
> helped avoid the issue.
I had another look; it may be related to the configuration. Turns out
I also had crashes in some mips64 and ppc/ppc64 tests, but not all of
them. For example, mips64 big endian crashed, but the same configuration
little endian passed.

I think I'll add some config file variations to my x86 tests.

Guenter