Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/434] 5.4.7-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:08:49PM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 06:45:22PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 10:34:37AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 06:20:53PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.7 release.
> > > > There are 434 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.
> > > 
> > > Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> > > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> > 
> > Thanks for testing all of these and letting me know.
> > 
> > But didn't you add perf build testing to your builds?  That should have
> > broken things, so I am guessing not :(
> 
> We do build (and run) perf, and it worked for us. Which patch was the
> problem? I can go look at why our config didn't hit the offending
> code/build path.

See the thread from Guenter and from others on the perf patches
themselves in this release for the details.

thanks,

greg k-h