Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/114] 4.4.163-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:50:09AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/8/18 1:50 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.163 release.
> > There are 114 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 Sat Nov 10 21:50:28 UTC 2018.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> 
> Building i386:allnoconfig ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpu_startup_entry':
> (.text+0x1a2e9): undefined reference to `cpuidle_devices'
> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> 
> 
> Bisect results:
> 
> # bad: [70cfa9ca6595d3238b36b9f6b36cf6e18dfd2c3b] Linux 4.4.163-rc1
> # good: [24c2342b8e51ab3185e68470709904150a1e3ee0] Linux 4.4.162
> git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v4.4.162'
> # good: [008f87b2e9c5db7dd3756832a9e449415d837c7d] ixgbe: fix RSS limit for X550
> git bisect good 008f87b2e9c5db7dd3756832a9e449415d837c7d
> # good: [5d92c564ec3dd9a5833974f3ce113cc7a94e0f6a] mtd: spi-nor: Add support for is25wp series chips
> git bisect good 5d92c564ec3dd9a5833974f3ce113cc7a94e0f6a
> # good: [71fba871e4a07400eb1400b1e6b45ca3a5487834] rtnetlink: Disallow FDB configuration for non-Ethernet device
> git bisect good 71fba871e4a07400eb1400b1e6b45ca3a5487834
> # good: [4d1024282b1259209bb4601f4b51dce367cf8a02] IB/ucm: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
> git bisect good 4d1024282b1259209bb4601f4b51dce367cf8a02
> # good: [fe9d47ae282ebd2bb10a36ec2bace1afd0ba050e] Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IGM
> git bisect good fe9d47ae282ebd2bb10a36ec2bace1afd0ba050e
> # bad: [573e8431fe60169157440664f74c6af254b3b00e] x86/percpu: Fix this_cpu_read()
> git bisect bad 573e8431fe60169157440664f74c6af254b3b00e
> # good: [be0ac51f4181a18c458080d79919aeee17ce0c68] sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota
> git bisect good be0ac51f4181a18c458080d79919aeee17ce0c68
> # first bad commit: [573e8431fe60169157440664f74c6af254b3b00e] x86/percpu: Fix this_cpu_read()
> 
> Full results will follow later, after builds are complete.

Ugh, kbuild just reported this as well.  Something's odd with 4.4 and
this patch, I think I might just drop it as no one has ever reported
this issue there...

Let me dig some more first...

greg k-h