Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/191] 5.10.201-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

On 11/17/23 06:58, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/16/23 23:41, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 06:43, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 11/15/23 12:44, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.201 release.
> > > > There are 191 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, 17 Nov 2023 20:46:03 +0000.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > Build results:
> > >          total: 159 pass: 155 fail: 4
> > > Failed builds:
> > >          arm:allmodconfig
> > >          arm64:allmodconfig
> > >          i386:tools/perf
> > >          x86_64:tools/perf
> > > Qemu test results:
> > >          total: 495 pass: 495 fail: 0
> > >
> > > with:
> > >
> > > Building arm64:allmodconfig ... failed
> > > --------------
> > > Error log:
> > > drivers/interconnect/qcom/osm-l3.c:6:10: fatal error: linux/args.h: 
> > > No such file or directory
> > >
> > > There is no linux/args.h in v5.10.y.
> > >
> > > Caused by "interconnect: qcom: osm-l3: Replace custom implementation 
> > > of COUNT_ARGS()".
> > >
> > > Also:
> > >
> > > Building i386:tools/perf ... failed
> > >
> > > util/evlist.c: In function ‘evlist__add_aux_dummy’:
> > > util/evlist.c:269:24: error: implicit declaration of function 
> > > ‘evlist__dummy_event’; did you mean ‘evsel__is_dummy_event’? 
> > > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > >      269 |  struct evsel *evsel = evlist__dummy_event(evlist);
> > >          |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >          |                        evsel__is_dummy_event
> > > util/evlist.c:269:24: error: initialization of ‘struct evsel *’ from 
> > > ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > >
> > > There is indeed no 'evlist__dummy_event' function in v5.10.y.
> > >
> > > This is with v5.10.200-192-g550b7e1fee20. I am a bit puzzled why others
> > > don't seem to see those problems.
> >
> > Thanks for reporting allmodconfig build failures.
> >
> > My apologies.
> > The LKFT found allmodconfig failure lately due to infra issues / 
> > timeouts,
> > the builds have been re-triggered manually.
> >
> >          arm:allmodconfig - FAILED
> >          arm64:allmodconfig - FAILED
> >
> > LKFT have stopped building perf on 5.x and 4.x branches, because we
> > reported several perf build issues and were not solved in the past.
>
> Kind of makes (sad) sense; after all, I had stopped building perf on
> 4.14.y as well for the same reason. I'll do the same for 4.19.y and
> for all 5.x branches.

FWIW, I will continue to build and test perf for all branches that I can 
easily run on our test rack, which are all of them except 4.14.y and 4.19.y.
--
Florian