Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

[Guenter Roeck]

On 7/30/24 10:20, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

Please see http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/x86-nosmp/

Thanks,
Guenter