Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/121] 4.9.238-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:48:35PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:59:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.238 release.
> > There are 121 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.
> > 
> 
> Build results:
> 	total: 171 pass: 171 fail: 0
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 386 pass: 377 fail: 9
> Failed tests:
> 	arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:mem128:zynq-zc702:initrd
> 	arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:mem128:zynq-zc702:rootfs
> 	arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:sd:mem128:zynq-zc706:rootfs
> 	arm64:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:smp:mem2G:initrd:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 	arm64:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:smp:mem2G:sata:rootfs:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 	arm64:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:nosmp:mem2G:initrd:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 	arm64be:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:smp:mem2G:initrd:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 	arm64be:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:smp:mem2G:sata:rootfs:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 	arm64be:xlnx-zcu102:defconfig:nosmp:mem2G:initrd:xilinx/zynqmp-ep108
> 
> The Xilinx problems appears to be due to the following two commits.
> 
> 1156dd2483fd serial: uartps: Wait for tx_empty in console setup
> 9a13572bf02b serial: uartps: Add a timeout to the tx empty wait
> 
> I didn't try all tests, but reverting those two patches fixes the problem
> at least for arm64:xlnx-zcu102.
> 
> I don't see this problem in any other stable releases.

Thanks for the report, I'll drop these two and push out a -rc2, thanks.

greg k-h