Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/73] 6.1.119-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 07:47:09AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/20/24 04:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.119 release.
> > There are 73 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, 22 Nov 2024 12:57:58 +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-6.1.119-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-6.1.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > -------------
> > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > 
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >      Linux 6.1.119-rc1
> > 
> > Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
> >      net: Make copy_safe_from_sockptr() match documentation
> > 
> > Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >      char: xillybus: Fix trivial bug with mutex
> > 
> > Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >      parisc: fix a possible DMA corruption
> > 
> 
> This results in:
> 
> include/linux/slab.h:229: warning: "ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN" redefined
>   229 | #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
>       |
> In file included from include/linux/cache.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/mmzone.h:12,
>                  from include/linux/gfp.h:7,
>                  from include/linux/mm.h:7:
> arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h:28: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>    28 | #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN   16      /* ldcw requires 16-byte alignment */
> 
> because commit 4ab5f8ec7d71a ("mm/slab: decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
> from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN") was not applied as well.
> 
> Then there is
> 
> include/linux/dma-mapping.h:546:47: error: macro "cache_line_size" passed 1 arguments, but takes just 0
>   546 | static inline int dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
>       |                                               ^
> arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h:31: note: macro "cache_line_size" defined here
>    31 | #define cache_line_size()       dcache_stride
>       |
> include/linux/dma-mapping.h:547:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '{' token
> 
> because commit 8c57da28dc3df ("dma: allow dma_get_cache_alignment()
> to be overridden by the arch code") is missing as well.
> 
> Those two patches fix the compile errors. I have not tested if the resulting
> images boot.

Thanks, I'll go queue them up now.

greg k-h