From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:59223 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbeCTR0P (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:26:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1521566757.2495.208.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 00/76] 3.16.56-rc1 review From: Ben Hutchings To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:25:57 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20180312164512.GA9933@roeck-us.net> References: <20180312150053.GB3917@roeck-us.net> <20180312164512.GA9933@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-k3GGIAl9OaK+I1JxblmP" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-k3GGIAl9OaK+I1JxblmP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 09:45 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:00:53AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:06:11AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.56 release. > > > There are 76 patches in this series, which will be posted as response= s > > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, plea= se > > > let me know. > > >=20 > > > Responses should be made by Wed Mar 14 12:00:00 UTC 2018. > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Build results: > > total: 136 pass: 136 fail:0 > > Qemu test results: > > total: 115 pass: 112 fail:3 > > Failed tests: > > mipsel:24Kf:malta_defconfig:smp:rootfs > > mipsel64:malta_defconfig:nosmp:rootfs > > mipsel64:malta_defconfig:smp:rootfs > >=20 > > The failures are due to newly added tests; the init process crashes. > > v3.16 passes those tests, so the problem was introduced later. > > I'll run a bisect later to see if I can find the culprit. If not, > > I'll drop the new tests from this kernel version. > >=20 >=20 > Turns out I did the bisect kalready. Attached. It does suggest that there > may be a real problem. Maciej W. Rozycki worked out that it depends on commit 27e28e8ec47a ("MIPS: Normalise code flow in the CpU exception handler") which I mistakenly omitted. I'll include that in the next update (3.16.57). Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. --=-k3GGIAl9OaK+I1JxblmP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAlqxRCUACgkQ57/I7JWG EQlxYhAAwAJZuuvKkOLiuyid2xJnQp1nu0LOaoDbevJ4Znhqs8pdvJlGLjLM1JD3 7jd1sIB8Z4fb156beRVx31z8i0ijKtwV18Ce9rZG2iSeVtSFJ7eDFxSfGu0afNHT 5KACuwVLdNgeUe34liLb2QwLz/ZDR/f2P+1BXuAur4HtKOmQ1HGFHG5FKAzPMvKr NhS/eoaCsZvrwqASc1PO10ovlP68i9Bo/x33tvsj8ngUu3lgjj+xGJZhLAX+hBqD Ac+w4NuekE28V9wR7Xqg0XakVru4NvNycZ9Xf2egAAKuGaJuapOjFZI7LxP83DNa Ej550zZ3TBVGKC80weMW8Q1r0KHtd4ghkRFhATC1tiSwe2G5wNv/Ja8UYCEBFIOg nJowOzaFSSPkLYsfqMqlr803Mq3/TkhCRkt+3/znRTiAJO/KyNhLZPDWFJj/6HvM Zad16GtGMSr9HjaDqY+fZtYZlDGMWmBAiuYaxGJpZcJ6fLnXAxsAvlbRZS73a7Nl I1mqO/IT3sya5j9LeOiBXimfrjCbhPqPukaEI3sw6f1KtiSsEwUZJCjOTfUS4w3z ODnFOLMdLwBzmdQi/AUU3/6q4y6Bwk5EvKmRBa/rQlZNEKjLTwlkxkCbVZ1398Wn eRggM2F3Rzz7KKaaJY+r8q+TMzGvD9VYIT+P8wxIscpk97fJ5oU= =9dqV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-k3GGIAl9OaK+I1JxblmP--