linux-kernel - Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] FS, MM, and stable trees

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:20:00 +0200
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     lsf-pc@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] FS, MM, and stable trees

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:56 PM Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Makes sense - e.g. I would like to have a process to make automation
> of the xfstests for proposed patches for stable for cifs.ko easier and
> part of the process (as we already do for cifs/smb3 related checkins
> to for-next ie linux next before sending to mainline for cifs.ko).
> Each filesystem has a different set of xfstests (and perhaps other
> mechanisms) to run so might be very specific to each file system, but
> would be helpful to discuss
>

Agreed.

Perhaps it is just a matter of communicating the stable tree workflow.
I currently only see notice emails from Greg about patches being queued
for stable.

I never saw an email from you or Greg saying, the branch "stable-xxx" is
in review. Please run your tests.

I have seen reports from LTP about stable kernels, so I know it is
being run regularly and I recently saw the set of xfstests configurations
that Sasha and Luis posted.

Is there any publicly available information about which tests are being run
on stable candidate branches?

Thanks,
Amir.