On 09/08/16 00:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2016-08-08 14:39, James Cowgill wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> On 08/08/16 14:35, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 02:53:35PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I'm seeing a fair number of test suite failures for strace on >>>> mips64el, both in the most recent upload[1] and in current upstream >>>> git HEAD[2]. It's looking like a lot of ENOSYS errors. Could I get >>>> some porter help with this please? Otherwise I'm tempted to remove >>>> mips64el from the arch list for the package. >>>> >>>> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=strace&arch=mips64el&ver=4.11-1&stamp=1452274105 >>>> [2] http://www.einval.com/debian/strace/build-logs/mips64el/ >>> >>> Ping? Any help on this please? >> >> I'm having a look at this. >> >> In a preliminary check I found that about half the testsuite failures >> were caused by a kernel bug in the ptrace handling of any syscalls >> returning ENOSYS. The bug was fixed in 4.3 so testing strace on kernels >> older than that probably isn't a good idea. There are still some other >> failures though > > Do you have a pointer to the fix? If it is small enough and easily > backportable, we can try to get it in the jessie kernel. This is the fix: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d218af78492a36a4ae607c08fedfb59258440314 It seems like Markos actually did want the patch to go into the stable tree, but it looks like that never happened: https://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2015-09/msg00293.html James
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