Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/120] 5.7.13-rc1 review

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Greg,

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 7:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 08:58:20AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:17:38PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.7.13 release.  There
> > > are 120 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 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:18:33 +0000.  Anything
> > > received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> >
> > Building sparc64:allmodconfig ... failed
> > --------------
> > Error log:
> > <stdin>:1511:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
> > In file included from arch/sparc/include/asm/percpu_64.h:11,
> >                  from arch/sparc/include/asm/percpu.h:5,
> >                  from include/linux/random.h:14,
> >                  from fs/crypto/policy.c:13:
> > arch/sparc/include/asm/trap_block.h:54:39: error: 'NR_CPUS' undeclared here (not in a function)
> >    54 | extern struct trap_per_cpu trap_block[NR_CPUS];
> >
> > Inherited from mainline. Builds are not complete yet;
> > we may see a few more failures (powerpc:ppc64e_defconfig
> > fails to build in mainline as well).
>
> If it gets fixed upstream, I'll fix it here :)

And else you'll release a known-broken v5.7.13?

Perhaps backporting should be a bit less aggressive?
This breakage was introduced in between v5.8-rc7 and v5.8, and backported
before people had the time to properly look into the v5.8 build bot logs.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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