Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/58] 4.4.81-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 09:17:37AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:37:45PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 08/09/2017 12:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.81 release.
> > > There are 58 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 Fri Aug 11 19:41:25 UTC 2017.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > 
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 145 pass: 143 fail: 2
> > Failed builds:
> > 	sparc64:allmodconfig
> > 	sparc64:allnoconfig
> > 
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 115 pass: 110 fail: 5
> > Failed tests:
> > 	nios2:10m50-ghrd:10m50_defconfig:10m50_devboard.dts
> > 	sparc64:sun4u:smp:sparc64_defconfig
> > 	sparc64:sun4v:smp:sparc64_defconfig
> > 	sparc64:sun4u:nosmp:sparc64_defconfig
> > 	sparc64:sun4v:nosmp:sparc64_defconfig
> > 
> > Build error:
> > 
> > arch/sparc/mm/tsb.c:478:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'tsb_context_switch'
> > 
> > The nios2 test crashes at reboot.
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> > ea = 00000000, ra = c803f110, cause = 13
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops
> > 
> > I'll start a bisect on it. Note that it also crashes in 4.9.
> 
> Odd that this also doesn't crash on 3.18 right now, as it has the same
> offending patch.  I've queued up the fix now, thanks.
> 
The nios2 architecture is not supported in 3.18.

Guenter