Candidate patches for Debian's 7.2 release (and backports)

Candidate patches for Debian's 7.2 release (and backports)

[Alex Bennée]

Hi Michael,

As I mentioned on IRC the LKFT team use Debian's backported version of
QEMU to test a wide range of kernel configurations in the cloud.
Unfortunately 7.2 shipped out with a few regressions which has halted
some of the testing when they upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2. Fortunately I
think most of these regressions have fixes in master.

Currently:

  git log --oneline v7.2.0.. --grep "qemu-stable" | wc -l

Reports 14 patches tagged for master since the 7.2 release. For LKFT
purposes I don't this all are needed but I think the following
definitely are:

4a1103afb1: target/arm: Fix in_debug path in S1_ptw_translate
Message-id: 20230114054605.2977022-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org

ec2918b467: target/riscv: Set pc_succ_insn for !rvc illegal insn
Message-Id: <20221203175744.151365-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org>

bc2331635c: target/sh4: Mask restore of env->flags from tb->flags
Message-ID: <20221212011345.GA2235238@roeck-us.net>

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

Re: Candidate patches for Debian's 7.2 release (and backports)

[Michael Tokarev]

02.02.2023 18:10, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> As I mentioned on IRC the LKFT team use Debian's backported version of
> QEMU to test a wide range of kernel configurations in the cloud.
> Unfortunately 7.2 shipped out with a few regressions which has halted
> some of the testing when they upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2. Fortunately I
> think most of these regressions have fixes in master.

Thank you for the reminder Alex!

I grabbed all patches in master which are tagged for stable (had to
tweak two nvme patches) and another which was pending in pm215 pullreq
(target-arm-Fix-physical-address-resolution-for-Stage2), and uploaded
7.2-2 to debian unstable. bpo11 version is ready too, I'll upload it
once 7.2-2 is built on unstable, hopefully there's no further regressions
in the changes I picked.

https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/blob/debian/1%257.2+dfsg-2/debian/changelog

Thanks,

/mjt