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From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:17:03 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/86] 4.9.88-stable review
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On 22 March 2018 at 13:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:20:04PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>> On 21 March 2018 at 19:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:49:19PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 11:27 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 03:48:24PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >> > > Results from Linaro=E2=80=99s test farm.
>> >> > > No regressions on arm64, arm, qemu_x86_64 and x86_64.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > NOTE:
>> >> > > CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE=3Dy is enabled from config as defa=
ult.
>> >> > > Enabled vsyscall=3Dnative and vsyscall=3Dnone from kernel command=
 line for testing
>> >> > > selftests/x86/test_vsyscall test case on x86_64 and qemu_x86_64.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > test_vdso_64 failed on x86_64 device when vsyscall=3Dnone is enab=
led.
>> >> > > We will investigate this new test failure.
>> >> >
>> >> > I think vsyscall=3Dnone just went away :)
>> >>
>> >> No, vsyscall=3Dnative went away upstream.  vsyscall=3Dnone should sti=
ll
>> >> work everywhere.
>> >
>> > Ah, sorry, got that wrong, thanks for the correction.
>> >
>> >> However, test_vdso_64 isn't able to detect what the current
>> >> configuration is and it will crash with vsyscall=3Dnone (or the
>> >> equivalent default in kconfig).
>>
>>
>> Shall i skip running "test_vdso_64" when vsyscall=3Dnone ?
>> or
>> Shall we fix the test case to work when vsyscall=3Dnone ?
>
> Why not start a new email thread with the author of that test to get the
> right people involved here?
>
> But first verify that it all works on the 4.15.y tree.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I will start a new thread on this topic.

- Naresh

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h