Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/96] 4.9.163-stable review

Guenter Roeck
2019-03-13T22:06:39Z

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:49:49PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.163 release.
> > > There are 96 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 Thu Mar 14 17:10:06 UTC 2019.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> >
> > Build results:
> > total: 172 pass: 170 fail: 2
> > Failed builds:
> > i386:tools/perf
> > x86_64:tools/perf
> > Qemu test results:
> > total: 316 pass: 316 fail: 0
> >
> > Culprit is commit 386ca5754fad ("perf trace: Support multiple "vfs_getname"
> > probes"), which introduces a call to strstarts() but not the necessary
> > include file or declaration. Unfortunately, fixing that is quite complex
> > (commit 8e99b6d4533c ("tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel")
> > doesn't apply).
>
> Thanks for tracking this down, I'm lost in a maze of gcc8 issues with
> perf on 4.9 and 4.4 at the moment trying to fix that.
>
> I'll go drop this patch from the 4.9 and 4.4 queues.
>
Agreed; the same patch also introduces a call to evlist__for_each_entry_safe(),
which does not exist in v4.4.y.

Guenter