[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 1:03 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/06/2021 11:29, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> > On 10/06/2021 11:05, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:05 AM Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Christian,
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:49 AM
> >>>> To: dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
> >>>> Cc: dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Abhishek Marathe
> >>>> <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>; Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>;
> >>>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>; Walker, Benjamin
> >>>> <benjamin.walker at intel.com>; David Christensen
> >>>> <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Govindharajan, Hariprasad
> >>>> <hariprasad.govindharajan at intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal
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> >>>> Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>;
> >>>> Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee at microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
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> >>>> <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 7:52 AM Christian Ehrhardt
> >>>> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here is version 2 of the list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9.
> >>>>> Thanks to plenty of helpful developers we've collected a few more
> >>>>> backports by now and sorted out a few rare compile time issues that were
> >>>> found with -rc1.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The planned date for the final release of 19.11.9 is now 18th of June.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
> >>>>> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
> >>>>> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc2
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately there were further build issues with new suse kernels.
> >>>> The fix for some of them, now breaks others :-/ The final fix didn't finalize
> >>>> yet, but as a TL;DR it means there will be a -rc3 down the road.
> >>>>
> >>>> I beg your pardon for the extra work.
> >>>> If you are testing non-suse and are already deep into the tests you likely can
> >>>> continue that.
> >>>> If you didn't start your tests yet then I'd recommend holding back until -rc3
> >>>> exists.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I see some build failures with gcc 11. Do we expect this release to support it?
> >>
> >> I have added all that were targeted at stable at dpdk, but I remember
> >> that Kevin mentioned a few missing in 20.11.x due to the submissions
> >> missing to go to stable at dpdk.
> >> The same could be the case here.
> >> @Kevin could you have a look at 19.11 and if there are some missing
> >> point me to the commits to pick up?
> >>
> >> @Ali - if you have a particular bug signature that might help to
> >> identify the right patch.
> >>
> >
> > They will all note 'GCC' (or gcc) in the commit msg. Most will have an
> > example of the 'warning' they resolved too. There was also bugzillas
> > opened for them all i think, which note the fixing commit. So if you
> > find any issues when building, you could cross-reference between warning
> > in commit/warning in Bz and fixing commit. Of course there may be some
> > new issues pop up in older code that was later changed/replaced in main.
> >
> > There was also 2 commits needed for clang 12 support (my bad for missing
> > tags on these).
>
> > 5ac070cfed test/cmdline: silence clang 12 warning
> ^ just sent backport of this with upstream commit and correct tag
> http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210610110028.230803-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/T/#u

I've already applied it a few hours ago, but the content is the same

> > 414245bbc5 test/cmdline: fix inputs array
> ^ this one was already merged on 19.11 and 20.11 branches

Yes, as are all the other GCC 11 fixes we discussed.

Thank you Kevin!

> >
> >>> I also see some doxygen errors with version 1.9.1 in Fedora Rawhide. Will open a Bugzilla ticket.
> >>
> >> Rawhide builds of 19.11.x were broken for a while now, but yeah filing
> >> the bug surely is the right path.
> >>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Ali
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd