On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 09:47:05AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 05:22:22PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.8 release. > > There are 186 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, 10 Sep 2020 15:21:57 +0000. > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > Build results: > total: 154 pass: 153 fail: 1 > Failed builds: > powerpc:allmodconfig > Qemu test results: > total: 430 pass: 430 fail: 0 > > The powerpc problem is the same as before: > > Inconsistent kallsyms data > Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround > > KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 doesn't help. The problem is sporadic, elusive, and all > but impossible to bisect. The same build passes on another system, for example, > with a different load pattern. It may pass with -j30 and fail with -j40. > The problem started at some point after v5.8, and got worse over time; by now > it almost always happens. I'd be happy to debug if there is a means to do it, > but I don't have an idea where to even start. I'd disable KALLSYMS in my > test configurations, but the symbol is selected from various places and thus > difficult to disable. So unless I stop building ppc:allmodconfig entirely > we'll just have to live with the failure. Ah, I was worried when I saw your dashboard orange for this kernel. I guess the powerpc maintainers don't care? Sad :( Anyway, thanks for testing them all and letting me know. greg k-h
