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Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:15:22 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/183] 5.15.134-rc1 review
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:03:30PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:07:14PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/10/23 3:55 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:43:46AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> > > On 10/4/23 10:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.134 release.
>> > > > There are 183 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 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:12 +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-5.15.134-rc1.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
>> > >
>> > > perf fails to build with:
>> > >
>> > >    CC /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.o
>> > > util/metricgroup.c: In function 'metricgroup__parse_groups':
>> > > util/metricgroup.c:1261:7: error: 'table' undeclared (first use in this
>> > > function)
>> > >    if (!table)
>> > >         ^~~~~
>> > > util/metricgroup.c:1261:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only
>> > > once for each function it appears in
>> > > make[6]: *** [/local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm/build/linux-custom/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.o]
>> > > Error 1
>> > >
>> > > caused by c1ef510a0f2a879bf29ddebae766ec9f0790eb8f ("perf metric: Return
>> > > early if no CPU PMU table exists"). Dropping this commit allows the build to
>> > > continue.
>> > >
>> > > I had reported in the previous cycle that 00facc760903be66 ("perf jevents:
>> > > Switch build to use jevents.py") was causing build failures:
>> > >
>> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a577578-8adb-aa70-1bf8-b1a4573152cf@gmail.com/
>> > >
>> > > do we still want these commits to be included?
>> >
>> > No, I'll go drop them now, thanks for the report.
>>
>> Thought:
>> It's not the first time we see build failures in tools/perf -- would it make
>> sense to add this to your own build tests to reduce the round trip time for
>> these errors ?
>
>Last time I tried to build perf, I couldn't do it at all so I just gave
>up trying to test for it :)

Same... I've also removed perf from AUTOSEL for that reason.

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Thanks,
Sasha