Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/123] 5.15.196-rc1 review

[Vijayendra Suman]

On 28/10/25 12:04 am, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.196 release.
> There are 123 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 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:34:15 +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/v5.x/stable-review/ 
> patch-5.15.196-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-5.15.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

perf failed to compile with following errors at compilation.

BUILDSTDERR: tests/perf-record.c: In function 'test__PERF_RECORD':
BUILDSTDERR: tests/perf-record.c:118:17: error: implicit declaration of 
function 'evlist__cancel_workload'; did you mean 
'evlist__start_workload'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
BUILDSTDERR:   118 |                 evlist__cancel_workload(evlist);
BUILDSTDERR:       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BUILDSTDERR:       |                 evlist__start_workload


There is no definition for evlist__cancel_workload

Following are references of 'evlist__cancel_workload'
tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c:118:	evlist__cancel_workload(evlist);
tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c:130:	evlist__cancel_workload(evlist);
tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c:142:	evlist__cancel_workload(evlist);
tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c:155:	evlist__cancel_workload(evlist);


Commit which need to be reverted.
b7e5c59f3b09 perf test: Don't leak workload gopipe in PERF_RECORD_*

thanks
Vijay