On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 17:57 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:49:04PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.61 release.
> > There are 366 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Fri Nov 16 18:00:00 UTC 2018.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> Build results:
> 	total: 140 pass: 139 fail: 1

So perf now builds in your x86_64 environment but still fails on i386. 
I didn't try i386 but that's still surprising...

> Failed builds: 
> 	i386:tools/perf
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 217 pass: 217 fail: 0
> 
> Details are available at https://kerneltests.org/builders/.

Thanks for checking.

Ben.

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