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Re: glibc 2.22 --- Master is frozen.
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Carlos Eduardo Seo <cseo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:37:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.22 --- Master is frozen.
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On 07/20/2015 11:46 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/20/2015 11:40 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 07/15/2015 07:21 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:57:14PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/13/2015 12:56 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>>>>> Master is now frozen. Please don't commit unless you get an ACK
>>>>>>> from me. Please respond to this thread if you have any patches
>>>>>>> pending review for the release.
>>>>>
>>>>> We discussed this offline, but to state publicly, I'd like to set the
>>>>> TLS deadlock fixes as blockers for 2.22.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed.
>>>>
>>>> Already added to the release page:
>>>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.22
>>>
>>> I'd like to add
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18696
>>>
>>> to 2.22 blocker.
>>
>> What are the implications of the breakage and the fix on machine testing?
>
> GDB with MPX support depends on the new siginfo. Since the _sigfault
> field is the par of a union, extending it is backward binary compatible.
I will allow this for 2.22 because we *thought* we had all the MPX pieces
in place and without this it's a regression and a bug because you need the
right siginfo definition.
OK for 2.22.
Cheers,
Carlos.