Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/36] 4.4.196-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/7/19 4:07 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:49:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:53:55AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 10/6/19 10:18 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.196 release.
> > > > There are 36 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 08 Oct 2019 05:07:10 PM UTC.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > >
> > > powerpc:defconfig fails to build.
> > >
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c: In function âeeh_handle_normal_eventâ:
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:678:2: error: implicit declaration of function âeeh_for_each_peâ; did you mean âbus_for_each_devâ?
> > >
> > > It has a point:
> > >
> > > ... HEAD is now at 13cac61d31df Linux 4.4.196-rc1
> > > $ git grep eeh_for_each_pe
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:ÂÂÂÂÂÂ eeh_for_each_pe(pe, tmp_pe)
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c:ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ eeh_for_each_pe(pe, tmp_pe)
> > >
> > > Caused by commit 3fb431be8de3a ("powerpc/eeh: Clear stale EEH_DEV_NO_HANDLER flag").
> > > Full report will follow later.
> >
> > Thanks for letting me know, I've dropped this from the queue now and
> > pushed out a -rc2 with that removed.
> >
> > Sasha, I thought your builder would have caught stuff like this?
>
> Interesting, the 4.4 build fails for me with vanilla 4.4 LTS kernel
> (which is why this was missed):
>
>  ÂASÂÂÂÂÂ arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.o
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1599: Warning: invalid register expression
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:1640: Warning: invalid register expression
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:839: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:840: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:864: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:865: Error: attempt to move .org backwards
> scripts/Makefile.build:375: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o' failed

Is this allmodconfig ? That is correct - it won't build in 4.4.y, and it would not be
easy to fix.

Guenter