Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFT]: kernel-yocto: v5.4 LTS kernel

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 1:25 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/29/20 4:48 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:31 AM Alexander Kanavin
> > <alex.kanavin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can these issues be bisected? That's how the two kernel regressions (both found last year via ptests) were tracked down to specific commits.
> >>
> >
> > mips64 was already bisected, and reported upstream, not much help
> > there .. I've already reached out to some more hardcore mips folks for
> > more help, so hopefully that works :D
> >
> can you point to link where this thread is

It was on the mips-kernel mailing list, but thanks to our friends at
Cisco, I have a patch in hand for this issue now. They'll follow up to
the original thread on the kernel mailing list with the detailed
findings (also watch for it on the linux-yocto mailing list).

>
> > The musl one didn't bisect in my attempt(s), but in that config it is
> > an easy issue to trigger. I'm out of time to debug it for the next two
> > weeks, hence why I'm broadcasting to see if others want to take a
> > look.
> >
>
> As I saw, I do not see this with latest master-next

ok, cool. I'll queue the mips fix and re-test. Hopefully it has been
sorted out through the latest version bumps.

Bruce

>
> > Bruce
> >
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 23:14, <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I just wanted to send these to the list, so everyone could see the
> >>> reference kernel that we are planning for the upcoming release.
> >>>
> >>> I have other patches to drop 4.19, 5.2 and make this the default
> >>> kernel for the various reference platforms as well, but I'm not
> >>> sending them, since we still have two outstanding issues:
> >>>
> >>> 1) mips64 init is segfaulting after / during some self tests.
> >>>
> >>>     https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/44/builds/1520/steps/8/logs/step6c
> >>>
> >>> 2) x86 musl is getting a gpf on many commands:
> >>>
> >>>     https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/64/builds/1501/steps/8/logs/step1c
> >>>
> >>> I've looked into both, and don't have any great ideas on how to debug
> >>> or fix them.
> >>>
> >>> So if anyone has ideas, or wants to poke at these, feel free to follow up.
> >>> But as of now, we still can't merge the v5.4 kernel as the reference due
> >>> to these remaining problems.
> >>>
> >>> Bruce
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The following changes since commit ca3993cc4b13d4e661228cee6fb9448adfd0a4ba:
> >>>
> >>>    bitbake: tests/fetch: Allow wget upgrade tests to run against a local server (2020-01-22 15:56:39 +0000)
> >>>
> >>> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>>
> >>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib zedd/kernel-oe
> >>>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=zedd/kernel-oe
> >>>
> >>> Bruce Ashfield (3):
> >>>    linux-yocto: introduce 5.4 recipes
> >>>    kern-tools: update Kconfiglib to latest (for 5.4+ kernel)
> >>>    kernel-devsrc: update to v5.4+
> >>>
> >>>   .../kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb       |  2 +-
> >>>   meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb    |  8 +--
> >>>   .../linux/linux-yocto-rt_5.4.bb               | 44 +++++++++++++++
> >>>   .../linux/linux-yocto-tiny_5.4.bb             | 32 +++++++++++
> >>>   meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_5.4.bb  | 54 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>>   5 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-rt_5.4.bb
> >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-tiny_5.4.bb
> >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_5.4.bb
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> 2.19.1
> >>>
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