Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/39] 4.19.278-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 15 2023 - 12:35:11 EST


On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:59:14AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 3/15/23 08:44, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > On 15/03/23 06:12, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.278 release.
> > > There are 39 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 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:57:10 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.278-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-4.19.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Lots and lots of failures, mostly Arm.
> >
> > For Arm, Arm64, MIPS, with GCC-8, GCC-9, GCC-10, GCC-11, GCC-12, Clang-16, for some combinations with:
> > * axm55xx_defconfig
> > * davinci_all_defconfig
> > * defconfig
> > * defconfig-40bc7ee5
> > * lkftconfig-kasan
> > * multi_v5_defconfig
> > * s5pv210_defconfig
> > * sama5_defconfig
> >
> > -----8<-----
> > /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2237:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_online_cpus' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >         get_online_cpus();
> >         ^
> > /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2237:2: note: did you mean 'get_online_mems'?
> > /builds/linux/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:258:20: note: 'get_online_mems' declared here
> > static inline void get_online_mems(void) {}
> >                    ^
> > /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2248:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'put_online_cpus' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >         put_online_cpus();
> >         ^
> > /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2248:2: note: did you mean 'put_online_mems'?
> > /builds/linux/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:259:20: note: 'put_online_mems' declared here
> > static inline void put_online_mems(void) {}
> >                    ^
> > 2 errors generated.
> > make[3]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:303: kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o] Error 1
> > ----->8-----
> >
> >
> > For Arm64, i386 x86, with GCC-11, Perf has a new error:
> >
> > -----8<-----
> > In function 'ready',
> >     inlined from 'sender' at bench/sched-messaging.c:90:2:
> > bench/sched-messaging.c:76:13: error: 'dummy' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
> >    76 |         if (write(ready_out, &dummy, 1) != 1)
> >       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In file included from bench/../perf-sys.h:5,
> >                  from bench/../perf.h:18,
> >                  from bench/sched-messaging.c:13:
> > ----->8-----
> >
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > Daniel Díaz
> > daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
> Looks like this whole set of release candidates is a disaster. I have stopped
> my testbed for the time being (no point in wasting energy), so there won't be
> any further updates from me for the time being.

Thanks, yeah, looks like only x86 seems to work here, I'll drop a bunch
of patches and push out -rc2 later tonight.

sorry for the mess, turns out that lots of different set of backports
broke arches they were not expecting to :(

greg k-h