Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/276] 5.15.195-rc1 review

From: Florian Fainelli

Date: Fri Oct 17 2025 - 19:04:55 EST


+Ali,

On 10/17/25 15:57, Florian Fainelli wrote:
On 10/17/25 07:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.195 release.
There are 276 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 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:50:59 +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-5.15.195-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 fails to build on ARM, ARM64 and MIPS with:

In file included from util/arm-spe.c:37:
/local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/ include/../../arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h:198:10: fatal error: asm/ sysreg.h: No such file or directory
  198 | #include <asm/sysreg.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

I was not able to run a bisection but will attempt to do that later during the weekend.

That is due to commit 07b49160816a936be7c1e0af869097223e75d547
Author: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 11 14:24:39 2022 +0800

perf arm-spe: Use SPE data source for neoverse cores

and this hunk specifically:

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
index 569e1b8ad0ab..7b16898af4e7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include "arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-decoder.h"
#include "arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-pkt-decoder.h"

+#include "../../arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h"
#define MAX_TIMESTAMP (~0ULL)

There is a dependency on this upstream commit:

commit 1314376d495f2d79cc58753ff3034ccc503c43c9
Author: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 24 18:33:20 2022 +0000

tools arm64: Import cputype.h


for tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h to be present.
--
Florian