Re: [PATCH 1/3] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:30 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 3:30 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 3/2/24 14:10, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > While checkpatch is indeed of arguable value, I think it would help a
> > > lot not having to bother about the persistent _build_ failures on
> > > 32-bit systems. You mentioned the fancy drm CI system above, but they
> > > don't run tests and not even test builds on 32-bit targets, which has
> > > repeatedly caused (and currently does cause) build failures in drm
> > > code when trying to build, say, arm:allmodconfig in linux-next. Most
> > > trivial build failures in linux-next (and, yes, sometimes mainline)
> > > could be prevented with a simple generic CI.
> >
> > Yes, definitely. Thanks for bringing that up.
>
> +1

> Kisskb can send out email when builds get broken, and when they get
> fixed again.  I receive such emails for the m68k builds.

Like this (yes, one more in DRM; sometimes I wonder if DRM is meant only
for 64-bit little-endian platforms with +200 GiB/s memory bandwidth):

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Subject: kisskb: FAILED linux-next/m68k-allmodconfig/m68k-gcc8 Mon Mar 04, 06:35
To: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:05:14 -0000

FAILED linux-next/m68k-allmodconfig/m68k-gcc8 Mon Mar 04, 06:35

http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/15135537/

Commit:   Add linux-next specific files for 20240304
          67908bf6954b7635d33760ff6dfc189fc26ccc89
Compiler: m68k-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.5.0 / GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1

Possible errors
---------------

ERROR: modpost: "__udivdi3" [drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i-drm-hdmi.ko] undefined!
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:145: Module.symvers] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1871: modpost] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2

No warnings found in log.
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Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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