Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.16-rc2

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:

JFYI, when comparing v4.16-rc2[1] to v4.16-rc1[3], the summaries are:
  - build errors: +5/-2

  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S: Error: junk at
end of line, first unrecognized character is `U':  => 677
  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S: Error: missing ')':  => 677
  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S: Error: unexpected
characters following instruction at operand 2 -- `movk
x1,:abs_g0_nc:0xff00ffffffUL':  => 677
  + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S: Error: unexpected
characters following instruction at operand 2 -- `movz
x1,:abs_g1_s:0xff00ffffffUL':  => 677

arm64-allnoconfig
arm64-allmodconfig
arm64-defconfig
(patch available)

  + error: hotplug-cpu.c: undefined reference to
`timed_topology_update':  => .text+0x410), .text+0x138)

ppc64le/pseries_le_defconfig+NO_NUMA

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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