On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:46:53PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:41:01AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On 2/7/19 6:20 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On 2/7/19 3:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.174 release. > > > > There are 34 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 Sat Feb 9 11:30:10 UTC 2019. > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > > > > > Build results: > > > total: 171 pass: 170 fail: 1 > > > Failed builds: > > > x86_64:allyesconfig > > > Qemu test results: > > > total: 291 pass: 291 fail: 0 > > > > > > The build failure is interesting. > > > > > > Relocation offset doesn't fit in 32 bits > > > make[3]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1 > > > make[3]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs' > > > make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 > > > make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2 > > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > > make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 > > > > > > Unfortunately it doesn't tell me _which_ relocation doesn't fit. > > > > > > I may have to revert to an older compiler. Wouldn't be the first time. > > > Let me try... > > > > > > > Confirmed. This builds fine with gcc-6.5.0 and binutils 2.26.1. Sigh :-(. > > That's really really odd :( > > Let me try this, I only normally build allmodconfig. > Don't bother. I reverted to gcc 6.3.0, where it builds fine. Matching compiler versions to kernel releases is always challenging. This isn't the only case where I can not use the latest version of gcc. Guenter