Re: [PATCH 5.2 000/413] 5.2.3-stable review

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:08:33 EST


On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:30:10PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 25/07/19 18:20, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:10:37PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 25/07/19 18:09, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>>> This investigation confirms it is a new test code failure on stable-rc 5.2.3
> >>> No, it only confirms that kvm-unit-tests/master fails on 5.2.*. To confirm
> >>> a new failure in 5.2.3 you would need to show a test that passes on 5.2.2
> >>> and fails on 5.2.3.
> >>
> >> I think he meant "a failure in new test code". :)
> >
> > Ah, that does appear to be the case. So just to be clear, we're good, right?
>
> Yes. I'm happy to gather ideas on how to avoid this (i.e. 1) if a
> submodule would be useful; 2) where to stick it).

As a starting point, what about adding "stable" branches for each kernel
release to kvm-unit-tests, e.g. linux-5.2.y? I assume we'd need something
similar for the submodules anyways.