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

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

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.

thanks,

greg k-h