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

Daniel Díaz
2019-03-13T18:23:57Z

Hello!

On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 11:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 08:14:29AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 07:44:34AM -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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Early results:
> > >
> > > Building x86_64:tools/perf ... failed
> > > --------------
> > > Error log:
> > > Warning: arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h differs from kernel
> > > Warning: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h differs from kernel
> > > PERF_VERSION = 4.9.162.g605129
> > > builtin-trace.c: In function ‘perf_evlist__add_vfs_getname’:
> > > builtin-trace.c:2071:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strstarts’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > > builtin-trace.c:2071:3: error: nested extern declaration of ‘strstarts’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
> > >
> > > Also affects v4.4.y-queue.
> >
> > Hm, at first I was worried about my backport, but if it hit 4.4 as well,
> > that's not my fault :)
> >
> > I'll look at this after breakfast, thanks!
>
> I can't even get perf to build without any stable queue patches for
> 4.9.y at the moment, nor for 4.4.y, so something is odd, or I just have
> too "new" of a system. Let me go dig up a debian box to see if I can at
> least find a way to start to reproduce this...

Interesting. To add to the fun, just yesterday I tried building the
Perf recipe from OpenEmbedded and it failed for these combinations:
* 4.4.176 and x86_64:
| CC /srv/oe/build/tmp-lkft-glibc/work/intel_corei7_64-linaro-linux/perf/1.0-r9/perf-1.0/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
| bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S:4:10: fatal error:
../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: No such file or directory
| #include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| compilation terminated.

* 4.14.105 and i386:
| In file included from util/libunwind/x86_32.c:33:0:
| util/libunwind/../../arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c: In function
'libunwind__x86_reg_id':
| util/libunwind/../../arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c:110:11: error:
'EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean
'UNW_EINVAL'?
| return -EINVAL;
| ^~~~~~
| UNW_EINVAL

Other combinations that worked:
* 4.4.176 with arm, arm64, i386
* 4.9.162 with arm, arm64, i386, x86_64
* 4.14.105 with arm, arm64, x86_64
* 4.19.28 with arm, arm64, i386, x86_64
* 4.20.15 with arm, arm64, i386, x86_64
* 5.0.1 with arm, arm64, i386, x86_64

I'll try again the failing combos to discard a problem with the OE build itself.

Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@linaro.org