From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: richard.guenther@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com, matz@suse.de,
hubicka@ucw.cz, aurelien@aurel32.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:37:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305223713.GF17267@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080305.141622.80343656.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:16:22PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:40:59 +0100
>
> > Right. So this problem is over-exaggerated. It's not like
> > "any binary you create on that system will be broken on any
> > other existing system."
>
> I will be sure to hunt you down to help debug when someone reports
> that once every few weeks their multi-day simulation gives incorrect
> results :-)
>
> This is one of those cases where the bug is going to be a huge
> issue to people who actually hit it, and since we know about the
> problem, knowingly shipping something in that state is unforgivable.
In this case, it appears that the 4.3.0 tarballs already hit the
servers before the issue was discovered.
It's not the end of the world; quite often .0 releases have some issue,
and we can patch the 4_3 branch and recommend that the patch be used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 15:30 Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 19:58 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-05 20:23 ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 20:38 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 20:42 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-05 20:49 ` Jan Hubicka
2008-03-05 21:02 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 21:20 ` RELEASE BLOCKER: " Joe Buck
2008-03-05 21:32 ` Richard Guenther
2008-03-05 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 21:40 ` Richard Guenther
2008-03-05 22:16 ` David Miller
2008-03-05 22:37 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2008-03-05 22:51 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 23:07 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 23:10 ` David Miller
2008-03-05 23:16 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-05 23:12 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-05 21:43 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-05 21:44 ` Richard Guenther
[not found] ` <738B72DB-A1D6-43F8-813A-E49688D05771@apple.com>
2008-03-05 21:59 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 22:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-05 22:21 ` David Miller
2008-03-05 23:13 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-06 0:36 ` Chris Lattner
2008-03-06 0:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <578FCA7D-D7A6-44F6-9310-4A97C13CDCBE@apple.com>
2008-03-06 1:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 9:17 ` Jakub Jelinek
2008-03-06 13:51 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-06 14:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-06 14:12 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-06 14:15 ` Andrew Haley
2008-03-06 17:58 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-06 18:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-06 18:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-06 18:31 ` Jack Lloyd
2008-03-06 18:35 ` Andrew Pinski
2008-03-06 19:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-06 19:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-06 20:16 ` Jack Lloyd
2008-03-06 21:37 ` Artur Skawina
2008-03-06 15:09 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-06 15:37 ` NightStrike
2008-03-06 15:43 ` H.J. Lu
2008-03-06 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 16:23 ` Jakub Jelinek
2008-03-06 16:27 ` İsmail Dönmez
2008-03-06 16:58 ` H.J. Lu
2008-03-06 17:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 17:14 ` H.J. Lu
2008-03-06 17:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 17:34 ` H.J. Lu
2008-03-06 19:35 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-06 17:18 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-06 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 19:25 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-06 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-07 8:28 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-07 8:00 ` Andreas Jaeger
2008-03-06 15:57 ` Robert Dewar
2008-03-06 16:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-03-06 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 16:14 ` Artur Skawina
2008-03-06 0:49 ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 22:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 2:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-06 8:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-06 9:01 ` Jakub Jelinek
2008-03-06 15:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 21:45 ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 21:43 ` Andrew Pinski
2008-03-05 21:43 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-05 22:12 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-05 22:17 ` David Miller
2008-03-05 23:17 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-05 23:21 ` David Daney
2008-03-06 14:06 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-03-08 19:10 ` Alexandre Oliva
2008-03-05 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 20:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05 20:52 ` Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 21:23 ` David Miller
2008-03-06 9:53 ` Andrew Haley
2008-03-06 11:45 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-06 12:06 ` Richard Guenther
2008-03-06 17:34 ` Joe Buck
2008-03-06 20:54 ` Richard Guenther
2008-03-06 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-07 4:56 ` Chris Lattner
2008-03-07 14:09 ` Michael Matz
2008-03-06 9:45 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-03-05 16:56 ` H.J. Lu
2008-03-05 18:14 ` [PATCH] x86: Clear DF before calling signal handler Aurelien Jarno
2008-03-05 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 9:21 ` Ingo Molnar
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