Re: Aarch64 EXT4FS inode checksum failures - seems to be weak memory ordering issues

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jan 08 2021 - 05:32:10 EST


Hi!

> > > The gcc bugzilla mentions backports into gcc-linaro, but I do not see
> > > them in my git history.
> >
> > So, do we raise the minimum gcc version for the kernel as a whole to 5.1
> > or just for aarch64?
>
> Russell, Arnd, thanks so much for tracking down the root cause of the
> bug!
>
> I will note that RHEL 7 uses gcc 4.8. I personally don't have an
> objections to requiring developers using RHEL 7 to have to install a
> more modern gcc (since I use Debian Testing and gcc 10.2.1, myself,
> and gcc 5.1 is so five years ago :-), but I could imagine that being
> considered inconvenient for some.

I'm on gcc 4.9.2 on a machine that is hard to upgrade :-(.

Best regards,
Pavel
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