linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/389] 6.6.76-rc2 review

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Message-ID: <381bcb3a-9453-4d19-93ea-3608d3dc5ac9@stanley.mountain>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:52:39 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Yang Shi <yang@...amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
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	Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
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	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, willy@...radead.org,
	Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/389] 6.6.76-rc2 review

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 06:43:52PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hi Catalin and Yang Shi,
> 
> What's happening is that we backport the latest kselftests and run
> them on the old kernels.  This is a supported thing so kselftests
> are supposed to be able to handle that.
> 
> So we need to modify the testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_hugetlb_options.c
> to check if the feature is present and disable the test for older
> kernels.
> 
> This is not an issue with the stable kernel it's an issue with the
> new selftest.

Gar, nope.  It's me who is wrong.  Greg is right.  Why is usespace
triggering a WARN_ON_ONCE()?

regards,
dan carpenter