On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 08:37:26AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On 6/2/20 3:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.226 release. There are 59 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, 04 Jun 2020 10:16:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
Many arm builds still fail as attached. Is it really only me seeing this problem ?
FWIW, if we need/want to use unified assembler in v4.9.y, shouldn't all unified assembler patches be applied ?
We don't - I took 71f8af111010 as a dependency rather than on its own merit.
$ git log --oneline v4.9..c001899a5d6 arch/arm | grep unified c001899a5d6c ARM: 8843/1: use unified assembler in headers a216376add73 ARM: 8841/1: use unified assembler in macros eb7ff9023e4f ARM: 8829/1: spinlock: use unified assembler language syntax 32fdb046ac43 ARM: 8828/1: uaccess: use unified assembler language syntax 1293c2b5d790 ARM: dts: berlin2q: add "cache-unified" to l2 node 75fea300d73a ARM: 8723/2: always assume the "unified" syntax for assembly code
I am quite concerned especially about missing commit 75fea300d73a, which removes the ARM_ASM_UNIFIED configuration option. That means it is still present in v4.9.y, but the failing builds don't enable it. Given that, the build failures don't seem to be surprising.
I'm just going to drop this series from 4.9 for now, until we can figure out how to do it right.