linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/259] 6.1.56-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <20231006064140.GA178316@pevik>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 08:41:40 +0200
From:   Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de, conor@...nel.org,
        Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@...app.com>,
        Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        LTP List <ltp@...ts.linux.it>,
        Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@...e.com>,
        Eryu Guan <eguan@...hat.com>, chrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/259] 6.1.56-rc1 review

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 22:54, Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz> wrote:

> > Hi Naresh,

> > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.56 release.
> > > > There are 259 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 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:12 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.56-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.

> > > > thanks,

> > > > greg k-h

> > > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> > > Regressions on arm64 bcm2711-rpi-4-b device running LTP dio tests on
> > Could you please note in your reports also LTP version?

> Sure.
> We are running LTP Version: 20230516 for our testing.

> We will update the latest LTP release (20230929) next week.

Great, thank you.

> > FYI the best LTP release is always the latest release or git master branch.

> We have two threads here.
> 1) LTP release tag testing on all stable-rc branches
> 2) LTP master testing on a given specific kernel version [a]

Great, this makes sense.

BTW from looking in the log [b] ("INFO: ltp-pan reported some tests FAIL")
I see you use runltp. We recommend to switch to kirk [c]. And we definitely
appreciate your feedback from it.

Kind regards,
Petr

> [a] https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/ltp-master/
[b] https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/ltp-master/build/v6.5.3_20230929-2-g48a150bfd/testrun/20223790/suite/ltp-cve/test/cve-2017-8890/log
[c] https://github.com/linux-test-project/kirk/#readme

> - Naresh