Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/219] 4.19.92-stable review

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Dec 31 2019 - 21:01:27 EST


On 12/30/19 9:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 09:19:59AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 06:16:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.92 release.
There are 219 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, 31 Dec 2019 16:17:25 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

Build results:
total: 156 pass: 141 fail: 15
Failed builds:
i386:tools/perf
<all mips>
x86_64:tools/perf
Qemu test results:
total: 381 pass: 316 fail: 65
Failed tests:
<all mips>
<all ppc64_book3s_defconfig>

perf as with v4.14.y.

arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:40:10: fatal error: asm/sync.h: No such file or directory

Ah, will go drop the offending patch and push out a -rc2 with both of
these issues fixed.

arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h:56:1: error: type defaults to âintâ in declaration of âDECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSEâ
and similar errors.

The powerpc build problem is inherited from mainline and has not been fixed
there as far as I can see. I guess that makes 4.19.y bug-for-bug "compatible"
with mainline in that regard.

bug compatible is fun :(


Not really. It is a terrible idea and results in the opposite of what I would
call a "stable" release.

Anyway, turns out the offending commit is 14c73bd344d ("powerpc/vcpu: Assume
dedicated processors as non-preempt"), which uses static_branch_unlikely().
This function does not exist for ppc in v4.19.y and v5.4.y. Thus, the _impact_
of the error in v4.19.y and v5.4.y is the same as in mainline, but the _cause_
is different. Upstream commit 14c73bd344d should not have been applied to
v4.19.y and v5.4.y and needs to be reverted from those branches.

Guenter