Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/533] 6.6.54-rc2 review

[Wang Yugui]

Hi,

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.54 release.
> There are 533 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 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:30:30 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.6.54-rc2.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.

A new waring is report by 'make bzImage' in 6.6.54-rc2, 
but that is not reported in 6.6.53 and 6.12-rc1.

arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: Found an x86 instruction decoder bug, please report this.
arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: ffffffff8103c4d5:    c4 03 81 48 cf e9       vpermil2ps $0x9,%xmm15,%xmm14,%xmm15,%xmm9
arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: objdump says 6 bytes, but insn_get_length() says 0
arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: warning: Decoded and checked 6968668 instructions with 1 failures

the root cause is yet not clear.

Best Regards
Wang Yugui (wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
2024/10/04