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

From: Naresh Kamboju
Date: Mon Oct 09 2023 - 12:44:01 EST


On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 at 14:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 12:42:04PM -0600, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 10:40, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> > > NFS mounted rootfs.
> > > and LTP hugetlb hugemmap11 test case failed on x86 and arm64 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > LTP hugetlb tests failed log
> > > tst_hugepage.c:83: TINFO: 1 hugepage(s) reserved
> > > tst_test.c:1558: TINFO: Timeout per run is 0h 05m 00s
> > > hugemmap11.c:47: TFAIL: Memory mismatch after Direct-IO write
> > >
> > > LTP dio tests failed log
> > > compare_file: char mismatch: infile offset 4096: 0x01 . outfile
> > > offset 4096: 0x00 .
> > > diotest01 1 TFAIL : diotest1.c:158: file compare failed for
> > > infile and outfile
> >
> > Bisection led to "NFS: Fix O_DIRECT locking issues" (upstream commit
> > 7c6339322ce0c6128acbe36aacc1eeb986dd7bf1). Reverting that patch and
> > "NFS: Fix error handling for O_DIRECT write scheduling" (upstream
> > commit 954998b60caa8f2a3bf3abe490de6f08d283687a) (not a clean revert
> > this one) made ltp-dio pass again.
>
> So this is also an issue in Linus's tree? Or is it only on the 6.1.y

It is only on the 6.1.y branch.

- Naresh