On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 05:19:57PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote: > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.statx > head: 2335fc954ccf342e854379df1f6e81c3a98cf489 > commit: 8594c345e77db3d0d9aafeb18e475212ce89e58d [2/3] Merge commit 'ad4d05329d' into work.statx > config: i386-randconfig-x072-201709 (attached as .config) > compiler: gcc-6 (Debian 6.2.0-3) 6.2.0 20160901 > reproduce: > git checkout 8594c345e77db3d0d9aafeb18e475212ce89e58d > # save the attached .config to linux build tree > make ARCH=i386 > > Note: the vfs/work.statx HEAD 2335fc954ccf342e854379df1f6e81c3a98cf489 builds fine. > It only hurts bisectibility. Yes, which is precisely why the pull request had been for rebased-statx and not work.statx. Alternative would be work.statx-minimal with even more fixups in merge commit. Identical resulting trees, so the testing in -next applies to either variant, and rebased-statx has neither backmerges nor fixups in merge...