Re: Linux 5.15-rc3

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:05 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 02:21:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So after a somewhat rocky merge window and second rc, things are now
> > actually looking pretty normal for rc3. Knock wood.
> >
> > There are fixes all over, and the statistics look fairly regular, with
> > drivers dominating as they should (since they are most of the tree).
> > And outside of drivers, we have a fairly usual mix of changes -
> > architecture fixes, networking, filesystems, and tooling (the latter
> > being mostly kvm selftests).
> >
> > Shortlog appended, it's not too long and easy to scan through to get a
> > flavor for the details if you happen to care.
> >
> > Please do give it a whirl,
> >
>
> Build results:
>         total: 153 pass: 152 fail: 1
> Failed builds:
>         mips:allmodconfig

Gaah. I assume this is the

   arch/mips/include/asm/sibyte/bcm1480_scd.h:261: error:
"M_SPC_CFG_CLEAR" redefined

thing still.

It's been pending too long in the mips tree, I'll just take the patch
directly and finally empty your queue of build failures.

> Qemu test results:
>         total: 480 pass: 479 fail: 1
> Failed tests:
>         sparc64:sun4u:nodebug:smp:virtio-pci:net,i82559er:hd

And going back to your -rc1 email, I see

 "The qemu runtime failure bisects to commit 694a1116b405 ("virtio: Bind
  virtio device to device-tree node"), and reverting that commit fixes the
  problem.  With that patch applied, the virtio block device does not
  instantiate on sparc64. This results in a crash since that is where the
  test is trying to boot from"

That commit 694a1116b405 doesn't revert cleanly, but the conflict is
trivial (we've removed a "return 0" since then).

I've added the guilty parties to the participants list, but if this
test failure remains in rc4 I'll just do that revert at that point.

> Almost there ...

Almost.

               Linus