Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

[Jens Axboe]

On 7/30/24 11:04 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 08:29:20AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 02:40:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> The merge window felt pretty normal, and the stats all look pretty
>>> normal too. I was expecting things to be quieter because of summer
>>> vacations, but that (still) doesn't actually seem to have been the
>>> case.
>>>
>>> There's 12k+ regular commits (and another 850 merge commits), so as
>>> always the summary of this all is just my merge log. The diffstats are
>>> also (once again) dominated by some big hardware descriptions (another
>>> AMD GPU register dump accounts for ~45% of the lines in the diff, and
>>> some more perf event JSON descriptor files account for another 5%).
>>>
>>> But if you ignore those HW dumps, the diff too looks perfectly
>>> regular: drivers account for a bit over half (even when not counting
>>> the AMD register description noise). The rest is roughly one third
>>> architecture updates (lots of it is dts files, so I guess I could have
>>> lumped that in with "more hw descriptor tables"), one third tooling
>>> and documentation, and one third "core kernel" (filesystems,
>>> networking, VM and kernel). Very roughly.
>>>
>>> If you want more details, you should get the git tree, and then narrow
>>> things down based on interests.
>>>
>>
>> Build results:
>> 	total: 158 pass: 139 fail: 19
>> Failed builds:
> ...
>> 	i386:q35:pentium3:defconfig:pae:nosmp:net=ne2k_pci:initrd
> 
> This failure bisects to commit 0256994887d7 ("Merge tag
> 'for-6.11/block-post-20240722' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux"). I have no
> idea why that would be the case, but it is easy to reproduce. Maybe it is
> coincidental. Either case, copying Jens in case he has an idea.

I can take a look, but please post some details on what is actually
being run here so I can attempt to reproduce it. I looked at your
initial email too, and there's a link in there to:

https://kerneltests.org/builders

but I'm still not sure what's being run.

-- 
Jens Axboe