[LTP] [PATCH 6.1 000/259] 6.1.56-rc1 review

[Petr Vorel]

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 22:54, Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:

> > Hi Naresh,

> > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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
> > Could you please note in your reports also LTP version?

> Sure.
> We are running LTP Version: 20230516 for our testing.

> We will update the latest LTP release (20230929) next week.

Great, thank you.

> > FYI the best LTP release is always the latest release or git master branch.

> We have two threads here.
> 1) LTP release tag testing on all stable-rc branches
> 2) LTP master testing on a given specific kernel version [a]

Great, this makes sense.

BTW from looking in the log [b] ("INFO: ltp-pan reported some tests FAIL")
I see you use runltp. We recommend to switch to kirk [c]. And we definitely
appreciate your feedback from it.

Kind regards,
Petr

> [a] https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/ltp-master/
[b] https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/ltp-master/build/v6.5.3_20230929-2-g48a150bfd/testrun/20223790/suite/ltp-cve/test/cve-2017-8890/log
[c] https://github.com/linux-test-project/kirk/#readme

> - Naresh