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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:50:17 -0700
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:47 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:35 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello DAX maintainers,
> > I noticed our PPC64LE builds failing last night:
> > https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/jobs/388047043
> > https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/jobs/388047056
> > https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/jobs/388047099
> > and looking on lore, I see a fresh report from KernelCI against arm:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/?q=dax_supported
> >
> > Can you all please take a look?  More concerning is that I see this
> > failure on mainline.  It may be interesting to consider how this was
> > not spotted on -next.
>
> The failure is fixed with commit 88b67edd7247 ("dax: Fix compilation
> for CONFIG_DAX && !CONFIG_FS_DAX"). I rushed the fixes that led to
> this regression with insufficient exposure because it was crashing all
> users. I thought the 2 kbuild-robot reports I squashed covered all the
> config combinations, but there was a straggling report after I sent my
> -rc6 pull request.
>
> The baseline process escape for all of this was allowing a unit test
> triggerable insta-crash upstream in the first instance necessitating
> an urgent fix.

No worries; just checking that failures are root-caused.  I see it on
top of v5.9-rc6:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/.
I don't see it on -next today, but assume it will be there tomorrow.
Thanks for the info.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers