Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 14

From: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:18:03 -0700

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:51:51PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On 14/03/16 14:37, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > To give people an idea what to expect in the merge window, here are my current
> > build and runtime test results. Some of the runtime failures are due to the
> > newly introduced i2c bug, but many (including the arm64 boot failures) have
> > been around for a while.
> 
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 96 pass: 69 fail: 27
> > Failed tests:
> 
> > 	arm64:smp:defconfig
> 
> This may be due to this qemu bug: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/585237/
> 
You are right, with that patch applied to qemu it looks better, meaning
the image now crashes due to the failing i2c initialization.

> 
> > 	arm64:nosmp:defconfig
> 
> Since 4b3dc9679cf7 ("arm64: force CONFIG_SMP=y and remove redundant #ifdefs"),
> this may just be testing the smp case again - unless your qemu config is
> different too.
> 
Only difference is that it disables SMP, or at least tries to. I'll want to
keep it around for earlier kernels, though.

Thanks,
Guenter