On 2016-08-09 10:18, James Cowgill wrote: > 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 Thanks for the pointer. I have just backported this fix to the jessie branch in the git repository. I don't know when it will appear in a stable update though. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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