On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:39:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:31:56AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:27:18PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On 04/25/2017 08:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.64 release. > > > > There are 28 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 Thu Apr 27 15:08:00 UTC 2017. > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > > > > > Build results: > > > total: 149 pass: 144 fail: 5 > > > Failed builds: > > > powerpc:defconfig > > > powerpc:allmodconfig > > > powerpc:ppc64e_defconfig > > > powerpc:cell_defconfig > > > powerpc:maple_defconfig > > > > > > Qemu test results: > > > total: 115 pass: 110 fail: 5 > > > Failed tests: > > > powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:nosmp > > > powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:smp4 > > > powerpc:pseries:pseries_defconfig > > > powerpc:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:nosmp > > > powerpc:mpc8544ds:ppc64_e5500_defconfig:smp > > > > > > As mentioned earlier, the failures are > > > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S: Assembler messages: > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S:72: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.localentry' > > > > > > or: > > > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S: Assembler messages: > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S:72: Error: .localentry expression for `flush_icache_range' does not evaluate to a constant > > > > > > The error message depends on the compiler / binutils version. > > > > This patch is now dropped, so the ppc builds should now work. > > > Confirmed; all is good now. Wonderful, thanks for letting me know. greg k-h