linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/nolibc: add tests for multi-object linkage

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:51:28 +0200
From:   Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Zhangjin Wu <falcon@...ylab.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/nolibc: add tests for multi-object linkage

On 2023-10-12 03:41:50-0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 09:23:29AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > Hi Willy, Paul,
> > 
> > On 2023-10-12 09:06:33+0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 01:13:37AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > > While uncommon, nolibc executables can be linked together from multiple
> > > > compilation units.
> > > > Add some tests to make sure everything works in that case.
> > > (...)
> > 
> > [..]
> > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
> > > > ---
> > > > Note:
> > > > 
> > > > This depends on path "tools/nolibc: mark start_c as weak".
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231012-nolibc-start_c-multiple-v1-1-fbfc73e0283f@weissschuh.net/
> > > 
> > > For these two patches: Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> > 
> > Thanks, applied locally.
> > 
> > I guess the linked patch "tools/nolibc: mark start_c as weak" should
> > also go into nolibc/fixes.
> > 
> > @Paul, would it introduce too much churn for you if I submit another
> > nolibc pull with an updated nolibc/fixes?
> > (And the rebased nolibc/next with this commit while we are at it)
> 
> Not a problem this week!

Great, then:

Please pull the changes since the v6.6-rc1 tag from
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nolibc/linux-nolibc.git/

The branch 'fixes' up to and including
90864f0679fdbb3b2e1c3bdbe4b0a34df785cb0a for the v6.6 cycle.

The branch 'next' up to and including
f2c7923763dae51226584494722349fef4df3748 for linux-next.

The branch 'next', based upon 'fixes', was tested as follows:

i386:          162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
x86_64:        162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
arm64:         162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
arm:           162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
mips:          162 test(s): 161 passed,   1 skipped,   0 failed => status: warning
ppc:           162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
ppc64:         162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
ppc64le:       162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
riscv:         162 test(s): 162 passed,   0 skipped,   0 failed => status: success
s390:          162 test(s): 161 passed,   1 skipped,   0 failed => status: warning
loongarch:     162 test(s): 161 passed,   1 skipped,   0 failed => status: warning

> But after about Wednesday of next week, getting things into the upcoming
> merge window is pretty much as fast as sending them quickly to Linus,
> if that makes sense.  Unless there is to be a -rc8 this time, but I
> have heard no sign of that.
> 
> Make sense?

Sure, hopefully no more fixes are needed!

Thanks,
Thomas