Re: Linux 5.19-rc3

Guenter Roeck
2022-06-20T03:26:21Z

On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 03:38:26PM -0500, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's Sunday afternoon, which means it's time for another rc release.
>
> 5.19-rc3 is fairly small, and just looking at the diffstat, a lot of
> it ends up being in the documentation subdirectory. With another chunk
> in selftests.
>
> But we do have real code changes too, fairly evenly split between
> drivers, architecture fixes, and "other code". That other code is
> mostly filesystem fixes, but also some core kernel and networking.
>
> Full shortlog appended for your enjoyment, but so far everything looks
> fine. Knock wood,
>

Build results:
total: 149 pass: 148 fail: 1
Failed builds:
powerpc:allmodconfig
Qemu test results:
total: 489 pass: 489 fail: 0

powerpc:allmodconfig build failures:

Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c
make[3]: [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:204: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1 (ignored)
powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/display_mode_lib.o uses hard float, drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.o uses soft float
powerpc64-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.o
powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/display_mode_lib.o uses hard float, drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn315/dcn315_resource.o uses soft float
powerpc64-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn315/dcn315_resource.o
powerpc64-linux-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/display_mode_lib.o uses hard float, drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn316/dcn316_resource.o uses soft float
powerpc64-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn316/dcn316_resource.o

as reported before. Patches to fix the problems have been submitted and
should hopefully find their way into mainline at some point.

There is also still the runtime warning

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at lib/refcount.c:28 of_platform_bus_create+0x33c/0x3dc

seen with several arm qemu boot tests. It is fixed in -next.

Guenter