Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/245] 4.19.149-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 16:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.149 release.
> There are 245 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 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:59:03 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.149-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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>
> Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     perf stat: Force error in fallback on :k events

perf failed on stable rc branch 4.19 on all devices.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx>

In file included from util/evlist.h:15:0,
                 from util/evsel.c:30:
util/evsel.c: In function 'perf_evsel__exit':
util/util.h:25:28: warning: passing argument 1 of 'free' discards
'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
 #define zfree(ptr) ({ free(*ptr); *ptr = NULL; })
                            ^
util/evsel.c:1293:2: note: in expansion of macro 'zfree'
  zfree(&evsel->pmu_name);
  ^~~~~
In file included from
/srv/oe/build/tmp-lkft-glibc/work/intel_corei7_64-linaro-linux/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/tools/perf/arch/x86/include/perf_regs.h:5:0,
                 from util/perf_regs.h:27,
                 from util/event.h:11,
                 from util/callchain.h:8,
                 from util/evsel.c:26:
perf/1.0-r9/recipe-sysroot/usr/include/stdlib.h:563:13: note: expected
'void *' but argument is of type 'const char *'
 extern void free (void *__ptr) __THROW;
             ^~~~
util/evsel.c: In function 'perf_evsel__fallback':
util/evsel.c:2802:14: error: 'struct perf_evsel' has no member named
'core'; did you mean 'node'?
   if (evsel->core.attr.exclude_user)
              ^~~~
              node



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