Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/141] 4.9.137-stable review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 19:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:38:44AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> > On 11/11/18 8:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.137 release.
> > > There are 141 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 Tue Nov 13 22:15:38 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > >     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.137-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > -------------
> > > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > >
> > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >      Linux 4.9.137-rc1
> > >
> > ...
> > > Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >      cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
> >
> > Greg, maybe...
> >
> > commit ef8d3a128c1f1de7ffdedb2f14e846e10fd3fec3
> > Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Mon Oct 8 12:06:19 2018
> >
> >     cpupower: Fix coredump on VMWare
> >
> >     [ Upstream commit f69ffc5d3db8f1f03fd6d1df5930f9a1fbd787b6 ]
> >
> > should be dropped from v4.9 (and v4.4) since it causes:
> >
> > $ make V=1 -C tools/power/cpupower all
> >
> > gcc -fPIC -DVERSION=\"4.9.136.142.g36c7703\" -DPACKAGE=\"cpupower\"
> > -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -pipe -DNLS
> > -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign
> > -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -O1 -g -DDEBUG -I./lib -I ./utils -o
> > utils/helpers/amd.o -c utils/helpers/amd.c
> > utils/helpers/amd.c: In function âdecode_pstatesâ:
> > utils/helpers/amd.c:106:39: error: âunion msr_pstateâ has no member named
> > âfam17h_bitsâ
> >    if ((cpu_family == 0x17) && (!pstate.fam17h_bits.en))
> >
> > Due to nonexistent CPU (flag) support.
> >
> > Replied to Sasha on specific commits for both, v4.4 and v4.9.
>
> Now dropped from both queues.

Results from Linaroâs test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 4.9.137-rc1
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-4.9.y
git commit: cee1cbef71e8a5ebf74ae0e7d3858739df82a4db
git describe: v4.9.136-142-gcee1cbef71e8
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.136-142-gcee1cbef71e8

No regressions (compared to build v4.9.136)

No fixes (compared to build v4.9.136)

Ran 21202 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- dragonboard-410c - arm64
- hi6220-hikey - arm64
- i386
- juno-r2 - arm64
- qemu_arm
- qemu_arm64
- qemu_i386
- qemu_x86_64
- x15 - arm
- x86_64

Test Suites
-----------
* boot
* kselftest
* libhugetlbfs
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-timers-tests
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* kselftest-vsyscall-mode-native
* kselftest-vsyscall-mode-none

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>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h