Re: [tip:x86/cpu 4/4] Warning: Kernel ABI header at'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h' differs from latest version at'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h': 111< /* free(3*32+29) */

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jun 08 2021 - 13:07:41 EST


Em Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 11:25:05PM +0200, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 12:35:44PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > ...
> > will build in older systems where things added to the updated copy of
> > the kernel headers isn't present, so trying to update the file and then
> > rebuild perf, only warning me if it doesn't build would give me an early
> > warning about things that are breaking and that I should look sooner
> > rather than later.
> >
> > Doing just the diff is not that useful :-)
>
> Lemme see if I understand this correctly: you'd like for the 0day folks
> to take those perf-*src-pkg builds, put them on an *old* distro and see
> if it builds. Am I close?

Apply the patch, try to build it, it doesn't matter where you build it,
only that after applying the patch I want to know if it doersn't build,
so that I can look at it earlier than when it gets to my attention by
merging upstream, etc.

> And do that with the headers in tools/ which do not have the new changes
> and see if they still build?
>
> Or?
>
> Alternatively, we can always go back to keeping the headers in sync with
> those in tools/ and f'get about it.

We're doing it already, Peter wants to help me with it, and I think this
has value.

- Arnaldo

> Thoughts?
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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- Arnaldo