Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/183] 5.15.134-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:43:46AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 10/4/23 10:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.134 release.
> > There are 183 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, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:12 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.134-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-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> perf fails to build with:
> 
>   CC /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.o
> util/metricgroup.c: In function 'metricgroup__parse_groups':
> util/metricgroup.c:1261:7: error: 'table' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
>   if (!table)
>        ^~~~~
> util/metricgroup.c:1261:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only
> once for each function it appears in
> make[6]: *** [/local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.o]
> Error 1
> 
> caused by c1ef510a0f2a879bf29ddebae766ec9f0790eb8f ("perf metric: Return
> early if no CPU PMU table exists"). Dropping this commit allows the build to
> continue.
> 
> I had reported in the previous cycle that 00facc760903be66 ("perf jevents:
> Switch build to use jevents.py") was causing build failures:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a577578-8adb-aa70-1bf8-b1a4573152cf@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> do we still want these commits to be included?

No, I'll go drop them now, thanks for the report.

greg k-h