Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/50] 4.14.217-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-22T17:31:49Z

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:36:04PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:43:18PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 20:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:32:46PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.217 release.
> > > > > There are 50 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 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:57:23 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.217-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-4.14.y
> > > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > greg k-h
> > > >
> > > > arm64 clang-10 builds breaks due to this patch on
> > > > - stable-rc 4.14
> > > > - stable-rc 4.9
> > > > - stable-rc 4.4
> > > >
> > > > > Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> > > > > compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64
> > > >
> > > > arm64 (defconfig) with clang-10 - FAILED
> > >
> > > How is a clang build breaking on a "check what version of gcc is being
> > > used" change?
> > >
> > > What is the error message?
> >
> > make --silent --keep-going --jobs=8
> > O=/home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/1/tmp ARCH=arm64
> > CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- 'HOSTCC=sccache clang' 'CC=sccache
> > clang'
> > In file included from <built-in>:1:
> > include/linux/kconfig.h:74:
> > include/linux/compiler_types.h:58:
> > include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:160:3: error: Sorry, your version of GCC
> > is too old - please use 5.1 or newer.
> > # error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 5.1 or newer.
> > ^
> > 1 error generated.
> >
> > build error link:
> > https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc/-/jobs/980489003#L514
>
> Urgh, looks like we need backports of 815f0ddb346c
> ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h mutually exclusive") then.
>
> Greg -- please drop my changes from 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4 for now and I'll
> look at this next week.

Now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h