Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/21] 3.18.113-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:58:15PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:09:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:48:05AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 06/12/2018 09:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.113 release.
> > > > There are 21 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 Jun 14 16:48:15 UTC 2018.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Build results:
> > > 	total: 138 pass: 136 fail: 2
> > > Failed builds:
> > > 	i386:tools/perf
> > > 	x86_64:tools/perf
> > > Qemu test results:
> > > 	total: 127 pass: 127 fail: 0
> > > 
> > > The perf test only fails because I run "make tools/perf" instead of
> > > "(cd tools/perf; make)". Fixing this requires the following two patches.
> > > 
> > > 379a9a28a1b4 tools build: No need to make libapi for perf explicitly
> > > 16671c1e1cac tools build: Fix Makefile(s) to properly invoke tools build
> > 
> > Thanks for this, and the other 3 results.  I'll just add these commits
> > to the next kernel as this is not a new failure.
> 
> I've queued these up now, but I still can't build perf for 3.18.  Given
> that no one has reported a problem with it so far, I'm guessing that no
> one cares, so I'll just leave it as-is for now.
> 
Ah, I should have waited for the test build to complete after applying the
patches. Sorry for that. Apparently there are additional dependencies.
(cd tools/perf; make) does work. I'll switch to use that for v3.16
(which has the same problem) and v3.18.

Guenter