On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:37:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:12:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> I also saw another warning:
>> >>
>> >> /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c: In function 'kaiser_init':
>> >> /git/arm-soc/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c:347:8: error: 'vsyscall_pgprot'
>> >> undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean
>> >> 'massage_pgprot'?
>> >>
>> >> I can send this as proper patches for inclusion in 4.9-stable, unless
>> >> someone has a better idea or finds a problem
>> >
>> > proper patches would be good :)
>>
>> Sent two patches now. I want to make sure I haven't missed anything there,
>> especially as my first approach at fixing it ended up causing other build
>> failures.
>>
>> In order to test this, I backported some 35 other (mostly trivial) patches 
>> later
>> kernels, and now I have a 4.9.80 based tree that produces a clean randconfig
>> build every time on arm64 and x86_64. If you want, I'll send you the list
>> of the required backports as well. From what I can tell, they are all
>> harmless (unused functions, missing Kconfig dependencies etc), but
>> being able to do randconfig builds reliable gives us an additional tool for
>> regression testing the stable kernels.
>
> Sure, I'll be glad to take those.

Here are the ones that I think should apply cleanly

ac29fc66855b drm/i915: fix intel_backlight_device_register declaration
23f919d4ad0e shmem: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning
aa01338c0184 clk: sunxi-ng: fix build error without CONFIG_RESET_CONTROLLER
fbdf0e28d061 vmxnet3: prevent building with 64K pages
11d8b05855f3 perf/x86: Shut up false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
42db500a551f PCI: vmd: Fix suspend handlers defined-but-not-used warning
fbc2a294f29e gpio: intel-mid: Fix build warning when !CONFIG_PM
b4aca383f9af platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix suspend handlers
unused warning
c8bd2ac3b4c6 usb: musb: fix compilation warning on unused function
de5bbdd01cf9 PCI: Change pci_host_common_probe() visibility
c0bfc549e962 perf: xgene: Include module.h
484c7bbf2649 video: fbdev: via: remove possibly unused variables
067fdeb2f391 dmaengine: zx: fix build warning
f46e7cd36b5f scsi: advansys: fix build warning for PCI=n
d4b2ac63b0ea x86/ras/inject: Make it depend on X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
b115bebc07f2 gpio: xgene: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused
f13d52cb3fad arm64: define BUG() instruction without CONFIG_BUG
75e2f0a6b161 x86/fpu/math-emu: Fix possible uninitialized variable use
e572d0887137 tools build: Add tools tree support for 'make -s'
d460131dd505 x86/build: Silence the build with "make -s"
68fd77cf8a4b thermal: fix INTEL_SOC_DTS_IOSF_CORE dependencies
c2ce3f5d89d5 x86: add MULTIUSER dependency for KVM
d689c64d189e x86/platform: Add PCI dependency for PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
3ba5b5ea7dc3 x86/vm86: Fix unused variable warning if THP is disabled
44a5b977128c scsi: advansys: fix uninitialized data access
2e449048a25e arm64: Kconfig: select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF only when
BINFMT_ELF is set
46a049dae771 ALSA: hda/ca0132 - fix possible NULL pointer use
ab4949640d66 reiserfs: avoid a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

For the rest, some need context changes, and some need a new patch
as the patch that avoided the warning or error in later kernels is not
a backportable fix (e.g. driver removed).

>> I suspect 4.4 would require even more patches, but I have not looked.
>
> If the above doesn't clean up 4.4 as well, that would be surprising :)
>
> Anyway, 4.4 might be nice to have "clean" if possible, and it's not too
> much trouble.

I think it was before 4.9 that I started doing randconfig testing on x86
and arm64, so I would expect some additional backports mostly.
I used to do randconfig testing for arm32 only, as that caught the
most bugs from arm-soc. However, there is still a large number of
issues for arm32 that require non-upstream workarounds, mostly for
the more esoteric configurations that other architectures don't have.

       Arnd

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