Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/387] 5.15.197-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 12:59:37PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 at 22:14, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.197 release.
> > There are 387 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 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:37:24 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.197-rc2.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> The powerpc allnoconfig failed with gcc-8 but passed with gcc-12.
> 
> Build regression: powerpc: allnoconfig: gcc-8: Inconsistent kallsyms data
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> 
> ### Build error Powerpc
> Inconsistent kallsyms data
> Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1244: vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> ### Commit pointing to,
>   Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
>   commit 88b61e3bff93f99712718db785b4aa0c1165f35c upstream.
> 
> ### Build
>  - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/36OCnVeYGpKUCXtxVdz6gezHjcQ/
>  - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/36OCnVeYGpKUCXtxVdz6gezHjcQ/config
> 
> ### Steps to reproduce
>  - tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch powerpc --toolchain gcc-8
> --kconfig allnoconfig

Odd, this works on 5.10 ok?  What is different about 5.15 that keeps
this from working?

thanks,

greg k-h