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. thanks for testing all of these. greg k-h
