Re: [PATCH 6.2 0000/1001] 6.2.3-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 06:01:42PM -0600, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 07/03/23 10:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.2.3 release.
> > There are 1001 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, 09 Mar 2023 16:57:34 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.2.3-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-6.2.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> We see a regression with PowerPC's ppc64e_defconfig, using GCC 8 and GCC 12:
> -----8<-----
> powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc: error: missing argument to '-mcpu='
> powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc: error: missing argument to '-mcpu='
> make[2]: *** [/builds/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile:237: arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [/builds/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile:237: arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.o] Error 1
> powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc: error: missing argument to '-mcpu='
> make[2]: *** [/builds/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile:235: arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot.o] Error 1
> [...]
> make[2]: Target 'arch/powerpc/boot/zImage' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: *** [/builds/linux/arch/powerpc/Makefile:247: zImage] Error 2
> make[1]: Target '__all' not remade because of errors.
> make: *** [Makefile:242: __sub-make] Error 2
> make: Target '__all' not remade because of errors.
> ----->8-----
> 
> Bisection points to "powerpc/boot: Don't always pass -mcpu=powerpc when building 32-bit uImage" (upstream ff7c76f66d8bad4e694c264c789249e1d3a8205d).
> 
> Reproducer:
>   tuxmake \
>     --runtime podman \
>     --target-arch powerpc \
>     --toolchain gcc-8 \
>     --kconfig ppc64e_defconfig \
>     config debugkernel dtbs kernel modules xipkernel

Thanks, now dropping this from all trees.

greg k-h