Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/86] 5.4.93-rc1 review

From: Daniel Díaz
Date: Mon Jan 25 2021 - 18:56:39 EST


Hello!

On 1/25/21 12:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.93 release.
There are 86 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, 27 Jan 2021 18:31:44 +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-5.4.93-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-5.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

Sanity results from Linaro’s test farm.
Regressions detected.

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 5.4.93-rc1
git repo: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
git branch: linux-5.4.y
git commit: 3deaa28e41d9780b3b462686a676fa1d21f55ad3
git describe: v5.4.92-87-g3deaa28e41d9
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y-sanity/build/v5.4.92-87-g3deaa28e41d9

Regressions (compared to build v5.4.92)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

x86_64:
build:
* clang-10-allnoconfig
* clang-10-tinyconfig
* gcc-8-allnoconfig
* gcc-8-tinyconfig
* gcc-9-allnoconfig
* gcc-9-tinyconfig
* gcc-10-allnoconfig
* gcc-10-tinyconfig

riscv:
build:
* clang-10-defconfig
* clang-11-defconfig
* gcc-8-defconfig
* gcc-9-defconfig
* gcc-10-defconfig

i386:
build:
* gcc-8-allnoconfig
* gcc-8-tinyconfig
* gcc-9-allnoconfig
* gcc-9-tinyconfig
* gcc-10-allnoconfig
* gcc-10-tinyconfig


No fixes (compared to build v5.4.92)

Ran 665 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- arc
- arm
- arm64
- i386
- juno-r2
- mips
- parisc
- powerpc
- riscv
- s390
- sh
- sparc
- x15
- x86
- x86_64

Test Suites
-----------
* build
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-smoketest-tests


i386 and x86_64 errors as reported on 5.10. Additionally, RISC-V errors look like this:

make --silent --keep-going --jobs=8 O=/home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/1/tmp ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- 'CC=sccache riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc' 'HOSTCC=sccache gcc'
Error: /builds/1nZcZgrKHH9C31BJVZOjOhHXH0s/arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/hifive-unleashed-a00.dts:88.27-28 syntax error
FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.lib:285: arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/hifive-unleashed-a00.dtb] Error 1
make[3]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors.
make[2]: *** [/builds/1nZcZgrKHH9C31BJVZOjOhHXH0s/scripts/Makefile.build:496: arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive] Error 2
make[2]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: *** [/builds/1nZcZgrKHH9C31BJVZOjOhHXH0s/Makefile:1272: dtbs] Error 2

We'll try to get more info.

Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx

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