On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 at 22:14, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.197 release. There are 387 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 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:37:24 +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-5.15.197-rc... 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
The powerpc allnoconfig failed with gcc-8 but passed with gcc-12.
Build regression: powerpc: allnoconfig: gcc-8: Inconsistent kallsyms data
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
### Build error Powerpc Inconsistent kallsyms data Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround make[1]: *** [Makefile:1244: vmlinux] Error 1
### Commit pointing to, Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros commit 88b61e3bff93f99712718db785b4aa0c1165f35c upstream.
### Build - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/36OCnVeYGpKUCXtxVdz6g... - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/36OCnVeYGpKUCXtxVdz6g...
### Steps to reproduce - tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch powerpc --toolchain gcc-8 --kconfig allnoconfig
## Build * kernel: 5.15.197-rc2 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: 19afef1f91d735ad63a7caa2e406e6379ede166b * git describe: v5.15.196-388-g19afef1f91d7 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.15.y/build/v5.15....
## Test Regressions (compared to v5.15.195-118-g59a59821e6b5) * powerpc, build - gcc-8-allnoconfig
## Metric Regressions (compared to v5.15.195-118-g59a59821e6b5)
## Test Fixes (compared to v5.15.195-118-g59a59821e6b5)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v5.15.195-118-g59a59821e6b5)
## Test result summary total: 32860, pass: 25148, fail: 2537, skip: 4848, xfail: 327
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 101 total, 101 passed, 0 failed * arm64: 28 total, 28 passed, 0 failed * i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed * mips: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed * parisc: 3 total, 3 passed, 0 failed * powerpc: 22 total, 21 passed, 1 failed * riscv: 8 total, 8 passed, 0 failed * s390: 9 total, 9 passed, 0 failed * sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed * x86_64: 24 total, 24 passed, 0 failed
## Test suites summary * boot * kselftest-arm64 * kselftest-breakpoints * kselftest-capabilities * kselftest-clone3 * kselftest-core * kselftest-cpu-hotplug * kselftest-exec * kselftest-fpu * kselftest-futex * kselftest-intel_pstate * kselftest-kcmp * kselftest-livepatch * kselftest-membarrier * kselftest-mincore * kselftest-mm * kselftest-mqueue * kselftest-net * kselftest-net-mptcp * kselftest-openat2 * kselftest-ptrace * kselftest-rseq * kselftest-rtc * kselftest-seccomp * kselftest-sigaltstack * kselftest-size * kselftest-tc-testing * kselftest-timers * kselftest-tmpfs * kselftest-tpm2 * kselftest-user_events * kselftest-vDSO * kselftest-x86 * kunit * lava * libgpiod * libhugetlbfs * log-parser-boot * log-parser-build-clang * log-parser-build-gcc * log-parser-test * ltp-capability * ltp-commands * ltp-containers * ltp-controllers * ltp-cpuhotplug * ltp-crypto * ltp-cve * ltp-dio * ltp-fcntl-locktests * ltp-fs * ltp-fs_bind * ltp-fs_perms_simple * ltp-hugetlb * ltp-math * ltp-mm * ltp-nptl * ltp-pty * ltp-sched * ltp-smoke * ltp-syscalls * ltp-tracing * perf * rcutorture
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