[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3][RFT]: kernel-yocto: v5.4 LTS kernel

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 5:47 PM Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 1:25 PM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/29/20 4:48 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:31 AM Alexander Kanavin
> > > <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Can these issues be bisected? That's how the two kernel regressions (both found last year via ptests) were tracked down to specific commits.
> > >>
> > >
> > > mips64 was already bisected, and reported upstream, not much help
> > > there .. I've already reached out to some more hardcore mips folks for
> > > more help, so hopefully that works :D
> > >
> > can you point to link where this thread is
>
> It was on the mips-kernel mailing list, but thanks to our friends at
> Cisco, I have a patch in hand for this issue now. They'll follow up to
> the original thread on the kernel mailing list with the detailed
> findings (also watch for it on the linux-yocto mailing list).
>
> >
> > > The musl one didn't bisect in my attempt(s), but in that config it is
> > > an easy issue to trigger. I'm out of time to debug it for the next two
> > > weeks, hence why I'm broadcasting to see if others want to take a
> > > look.
> > >
> >
> > As I saw, I do not see this with latest master-next
>
> ok, cool. I'll queue the mips fix and re-test. Hopefully it has been
> sorted out through the latest version bumps.

I'm unfortunately still seeing this on my AB run against master next.

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/64/builds/1520/steps/8/logs/step1c

Which does imply that the kernel bump is triggering it (since
master-next had 5.4, but it wasn't the default, my series makes it the
default).  I won't have any time to look at this until late next week,
since I'm still traveling.

Bruce

>
> Bruce
>
> >
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > >> Alex
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 23:14, <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi all,
> > >>>
> > >>> I just wanted to send these to the list, so everyone could see the
> > >>> reference kernel that we are planning for the upcoming release.
> > >>>
> > >>> I have other patches to drop 4.19, 5.2 and make this the default
> > >>> kernel for the various reference platforms as well, but I'm not
> > >>> sending them, since we still have two outstanding issues:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1) mips64 init is segfaulting after / during some self tests.
> > >>>
> > >>>     https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/44/builds/1520/steps/8/logs/step6c
> > >>>
> > >>> 2) x86 musl is getting a gpf on many commands:
> > >>>
> > >>>     https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/64/builds/1501/steps/8/logs/step1c
> > >>>
> > >>> I've looked into both, and don't have any great ideas on how to debug
> > >>> or fix them.
> > >>>
> > >>> So if anyone has ideas, or wants to poke at these, feel free to follow up.
> > >>> But as of now, we still can't merge the v5.4 kernel as the reference due
> > >>> to these remaining problems.
> > >>>
> > >>> Bruce
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The following changes since commit ca3993cc4b13d4e661228cee6fb9448adfd0a4ba:
> > >>>
> > >>>    bitbake: tests/fetch: Allow wget upgrade tests to run against a local server (2020-01-22 15:56:39 +0000)
> > >>>
> > >>> are available in the Git repository at:
> > >>>
> > >>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib zedd/kernel-oe
> > >>>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=zedd/kernel-oe
> > >>>
> > >>> Bruce Ashfield (3):
> > >>>    linux-yocto: introduce 5.4 recipes
> > >>>    kern-tools: update Kconfiglib to latest (for 5.4+ kernel)
> > >>>    kernel-devsrc: update to v5.4+
> > >>>
> > >>>   .../kern-tools/kern-tools-native_git.bb       |  2 +-
> > >>>   meta/recipes-kernel/linux/kernel-devsrc.bb    |  8 +--
> > >>>   .../linux/linux-yocto-rt_5.4.bb               | 44 +++++++++++++++
> > >>>   .../linux/linux-yocto-tiny_5.4.bb             | 32 +++++++++++
> > >>>   meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_5.4.bb  | 54 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >>>   5 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-rt_5.4.bb
> > >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto-tiny_5.4.bb
> > >>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto_5.4.bb
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> 2.19.1
> > >>>
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> > >
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>
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