Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/60] 5.4.27-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 06:55:51 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:55:20PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 3/19/20 6:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.27 release.
> > There are 60 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, 21 Mar 2020 12:37:04 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> Build results:
> total: 158 pass: 158 fail: 0
> Qemu test results:
> total: 427 pass: 425 fail: 2
> Failed tests:
> mipsel64:64r6el_defconfig:notests:smp:ide:hd
> mipsel64:64r6el_defconfig:notests:smp:ide:cd
>
> Building mipsel64:64r6el_defconfig:notests:smp:ide:hd ... failed
> ------------
> Error log:
> arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg.raw: PIC 'jalr t9' calls are not supported
>
> I was unable to figure out why I only see this problem in v5.4.y.
> The build error is easy to reproduce with gcc 9.2.0 and "64r6el_defconfig".

I've dropped a bunch of mips vdso patches from 5.5 and 5.4 queues now
and will push out new -rcs with those in them to hopefully resolve these
issues.

thanks,

greg k-h