Re: Linux 5.16-rc2

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 02:06:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Nothing especially noteworthy stands out for the last week, it all
> felt pretty normal for a rc2 week.
> 
> The commit stats look normal, and the diffstat looks fairly regular
> too. There's perhaps relatively less driver diffs than usual, partly
> explained by the tools subdirectory diff being larger than usual (a
> quarter of the whole thing), mostly just due to added kvm tests. The
> rest is arch updates, filesystems, networking, documentation etc...
> 
> So fixes a bit all over the place, with nothing that really stands
> out. Details below in the shortlog.
> 

Build results:
	total: 153 pass: 148 fail: 5
Failed builds:
	csky:defconfig
	csky:allmodconfig
	mips:allmodconfig
	powerpc:allmodconfig
	sparc64:allmodconfig
Qemu test results:
	total: 482 pass: 482 fail: 0

Details about build failures see below.

Guenter

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csky:defconfig
csky:allmodconfig
sparc64:allmodconfig

fs/netfs/read_helper.c: In function 'netfs_rreq_unlock':
fs/netfs/read_helper.c:435:25: error:
	implicit declaration of function 'flush_dcache_folio';

Fixed in -next.

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mips:allmodconfig

ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.o
ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_unlock_other" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "mips_cpc_base" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_lock_other" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_is64" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "mips_gcr_base" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!

Still seen in -next.

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powerpc:allmodconfig

fs/ntfs/aops.c: In function 'ntfs_write_mst_block':
fs/ntfs/aops.c:1311:1: error: the frame size of 2240 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes

Stephen marked NTFS_RW as BROKEN in -next.
Would something like "depends on BROKEN if PPC" be acceptable ?