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Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/217] 3.16.35-rc1 review

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On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 21:16 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 04:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.35 release.
> > There are 217 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Sat Apr 30 22:00:00 UTC 2016.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> Updated build and test results:
> 
> Build results:
> 	total: 137 pass: 135 fail: 2
> Failed builds:
> 	arc:allnoconfig
> 	arm64:allmodconfig
>
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 97 pass: 94 fail: 3
> Failed tests:
> 	arm:xilinx-zynq-a9:multi_v7_defconfig:zynq-zc706
> 	arm64:smp:defconfig
> 	arm64:nosmp:defconfig
> 
> This is after dropping a couple of builds and qemu tests which are
> known to be bad in 3.16, and after some fixes in the tree.
> 
> The arm64 build failure is due to gcc5, which needs a patch from a
> later kernel. The other failures are new and did not occur in 3.16.7.
>
> A bisect of the arm64 qemu failure points to commit f98ab7a1e78
> ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't
> make any progress"). Unfortunately, that is inconclusive, since there
> have been several follow-up commits trying to fix it. After reverting
> all those commits, the test still fails.

Thank you very much for the analysis.  I'll look at the failures later
as none of them appear to be related to the current patch series.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.

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Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/217] 3.16.35-rc1 review Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-04-29 06:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/217] 3.16.35-rc1 review Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-30 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/217] 3.16.35-rc1 review Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-05-01 01:30 +0200

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