[LTP] [PATCH 5.13 000/156] 5.13.5-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 17:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 05:26:22PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 22:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.13.5 release.
> > > There are 156 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 Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:56:00 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.13.5-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-5.13.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > The following error is due to SATA drive format failing with arm64 64k-page
> > size ( CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y ) kernel.
> > while running LTP syscalls test suite on running 5.13.3 and 5.13.5-rc1 kernel.
> >
> > First it was noticed on the stable-rc 5.13.3-rc2 kernel.
> >
> > Whereas 64bit kernel and 32bit kernel pass with 4K page size.
> >
> > Initially, I thought it could be a Hard drive fault but it is reproducible on
> > other devices but not always. Which is a blocker to bisect the problem.
> >
> > The steps to reproduce:
> >  - Boot arm64 juno device with 64k page stable-rc 5.13 kernel Image [1]
> >    - CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y
> >  - format connected SATA drives and mount /scratch
> >  - Use the mounted /scratch for LTP runs to create and delete files from this
> >  - cd /opt/ltp
> >  - ./runltp -d /scratch -f syscalls
>
> And does that also fail for 5.13.2?

Yes. It failed on 5.13.2 also.

Ref failed log:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.13.y/build/v5.13.2/testrun/5147287/suite/ltp-syscalls-tests/test/copy_file_range01/log

- Naresh