Re: [ 000/102] 3.10.6-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 13 2013 - 02:40:35 EST


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:02:06PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:33:29PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:20:30PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:56:36PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.6 release.
> > > > There are 102 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.
> > >
> > > Just checked on my OpenBlocks AX3 (dual-core ARMv7 in thumbs mode),
> > > everything seems OK, I did not even notice any performance regression
> > > compared to 3.10.5 on syscall intensive workloads with the recent
> > > changes. I'm sure that I'm using the kuser helpers page since the
> > > system doesn't boot without. Also I did observe minor changes in
> > > /proc/self/maps, but I don't think they should have any impact, so
> > > all in all it's OK :
> >
> > Wonderful, thanks so much for testing the arm stuff, I wasn't sure I got
> > it all correct in the backport.
> >
> > One of these days I'll get a system here that I can test arm changes
> > on...
> >
> Have a look at http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/waterfall.
>
> If everything works as intended, we should get automated builds
> for various platforms, plus automated qemu tests for some of them.
>
> I have qemu boot tests running for mips (3.4 and 3.10), ppc (3.0, 3.4, 3.10),
> and x86 (3.0, 3.4, 3.10) working. x86_64 and mips64 should follow soon.
>
> Unfortunately, arm tests don't work yet because of a bug in the arm
> kernel code.
>
> Builds are started about 30 minutes after a change in the stable-queue
> repository has been detected, and complete after 3-4 hours unless
> the servers are busy doing real work. Which explains why I can annoy
> you with results pretty quickly lately :).

Very nice, thanks for doing this, I'll watch it and see what I can break
:)

greg k-h
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