Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/91] 4.19.67-stable review

[Daniel DÃaz]

Hello!

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 08:29, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/19 10:00 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.67 release.
> > There are 91 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 16 Aug 2019 04:55:34 PM UTC.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> Building x86_64:tools/perf ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> Warning: arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h differs from kernel
> Warning: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h differs from kernel
>    PERF_VERSION = 4.9.189.ge000f87
> util/machine.c: In function âmachine__create_moduleâ:
> util/machine.c:1088:43: error: âsizeâ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean âdieâ?
>    if (arch__fix_module_text_start(&start, &size, name) < 0)
>                                             ^~~~
>                                             die
> util/machine.c:1088:43: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

We noticed this exact failure but not on 4.19. For us, 4.19's perf builds fine.

On 4.9, perf failed with the error you described, as it looks like
it's missing 9ad4652b66f1 ("perf record: Fix wrong size in
perf_record_mmap for last kernel module"), though I have not verified
yet.

Greetings!

Daniel DÃaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx