Re: [STABLE] stable backport request for 6.1 for io_uring

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 07:25:11AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/2/23 11:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 06:45:56PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 9/2/23 5:04 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> >>> On 2023-08-30 12:17 p.m., Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>>> On 8/28/23 3:55 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
> >>>>> Hello Greg, Hello Jens, Hello stable team,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> would you please accept some backports to v6.1-stable for io_uring()?
> >>>>> io_uring() fails on parisc because of some missing upstream patches.
> >>>>> Since 6.1 is currently used in debian and gentoo as main kernel we
> >>>>> face some build errors due to the missing patches.
> >>>> Fine with me.
> >>> This is probably not a problem with the backport but I see this fail in liburing tests:
> >>>
> >>> Running test wq-aff.t open: No such file or directory
> >>> test sqpoll failed
> >>> Test wq-aff.t failed with ret 1
> >>> Running test xattr.t 0 sec [0]
> >>> Running test statx.t 0 sec [0]
> >>> Running test sq-full-cpp.t 0 sec [0]
> >>> Tests failed (1): <wq-aff.t>
> >>
> >> That's because 6.1-stable is missing:
> >>
> >> commit ebdfefc09c6de7897962769bd3e63a2ff443ebf5
> >> Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> >> Date:   Sun Aug 13 11:05:36 2023 -0600
> >>
> >>     io_uring/sqpoll: fix io-wq affinity when IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL is used
> >>
> >> which went in recently and hasn't been backported to stable yet.
> > 
> > We can add that now to the stable queues if you want, otherwise we are
> > supposed to wait until -rc1.
> 
> It's fine to wait for -rc1, it's not an urgent fix by any stretch. I
> just always queue up test cases when a fix is headed upstream. Hence not
> unusual that a test or two will fail until the kernel side (and stable
> too) catches up.

Ok, thanks for the info, will wait on these until -rc1 is out.

greg k-h