Re: [PATCH 3.16 00/76] 3.16.56-rc1 review

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 09:45 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:00:53AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:06:11AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.56 release.
> > > There are 76 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Wed Mar 14 12:00:00 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > 
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 136 pass: 136 fail:0
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 115 pass: 112 fail:3
> > Failed tests:
> > 	mipsel:24Kf:malta_defconfig:smp:rootfs
> > 	mipsel64:malta_defconfig:nosmp:rootfs
> > 	mipsel64:malta_defconfig:smp:rootfs
> > 
> > The failures are due to newly added tests; the init process crashes.
> > v3.16 passes those tests, so the problem was introduced later.
> > I'll run a bisect later to see if I can find the culprit. If not,
> > I'll drop the new tests from this kernel version.
> > 
> 
> Turns out I did the bisect kalready. Attached. It does suggest that there
> may be a real problem.

Maciej W. Rozycki worked out that it depends on commit 27e28e8ec47a
("MIPS: Normalise code flow in the CpU exception handler") which I
mistakenly omitted.  I'll include that in the next update (3.16.57).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that
everything doesn't happen at once.

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