Linux overlord Linus Torvalds is both worried and chilled about the progress of Linux 4.9. Or maybe he isn't: his weekly message about the latest release candidate has a bet each way.
"We're getting further in the rc series, and while things have stayed pretty calm, I'm not sure if we're quite there yet," he posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Sunday evening. But in the next sentence, he calms down, saying "This may be one of those releases that have an rc8, which considering the size of 4.9 is perhaps not that unusual."
In the next paragraph of his post he again expresses both worry and calm.
"That said, nothing particular is bothering me all that much, but we've had some of the VMALLOC_STACK fixups continue to trickle in, so I worry that we're not quite done there yet."
He does it again in the next paragraph, first saying ""The fact that rc6 is bigger than rc5 was is not a particularly great sign" before then saying the situation is probably "just the usual timing fluctuation: rc6 had networking updates, rc5 didn't, for example."
"There are also some rdma updates etc that stand out. Nothing that looks particularly worrisome."
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday November 23 2016, @03:56AM
It helps a lot... It tells me that it's not just me doing something wrong.
I built with your exact .config but still have the same problem. Probably something with my ASRock 970M Pro3 motherboard.
I'll spend time looking at your config later--yours built in 21 minutes as opposed to my usual 23. Thanks again.