Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 7/30/24 10:20, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 7/30/24 11:04 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 08:29:20AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 02:40:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> The merge window felt pretty normal, and the stats all look pretty
>>>> normal too. I was expecting things to be quieter because of summer
>>>> vacations, but that (still) doesn't actually seem to have been the
>>>> case.
>>>>
>>>> There's 12k+ regular commits (and another 850 merge commits), so as
>>>> always the summary of this all is just my merge log. The diffstats are
>>>> also (once again) dominated by some big hardware descriptions (another
>>>> AMD GPU register dump accounts for ~45% of the lines in the diff, and
>>>> some more perf event JSON descriptor files account for another 5%).
>>>>
>>>> But if you ignore those HW dumps, the diff too looks perfectly
>>>> regular: drivers account for a bit over half (even when not counting
>>>> the AMD register description noise). The rest is roughly one third
>>>> architecture updates (lots of it is dts files, so I guess I could have
>>>> lumped that in with "more hw descriptor tables"), one third tooling
>>>> and documentation, and one third "core kernel" (filesystems,
>>>> networking, VM and kernel). Very roughly.
>>>>
>>>> If you want more details, you should get the git tree, and then narrow
>>>> things down based on interests.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Build results:
>>> 	total: 158 pass: 139 fail: 19
>>> Failed builds:
>> ...
>>> 	i386:q35:pentium3:defconfig:pae:nosmp:net=ne2k_pci:initrd
>>
>> This failure bisects to commit 0256994887d7 ("Merge tag
>> 'for-6.11/block-post-20240722' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux"). I have no
>> idea why that would be the case, but it is easy to reproduce. Maybe it is
>> coincidental. Either case, copying Jens in case he has an idea.
> 
> I can take a look, but please post some details on what is actually
> being run here so I can attempt to reproduce it. I looked at your
> initial email too, and there's a link in there to:
> 
> https://kerneltests.org/builders
> 
> but I'm still not sure what's being run.
> 

Please see http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/x86-nosmp/

Thanks,
Guenter