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Re: 2.26 hard freeze status


On Thursday 27 July 2017 11:06 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I'm doing final testing of Torvald's patches for rwlock and robust
> mutexes on ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64, i686, aarch64, and armv7hl to
> make sure I have good coverage before commit.
> 
> I'm really trying to hit today as the day I commit these changes,
> and so far I haven't seen any issue with the patch itself.
> 
> The one downside I have is that the reproducer doesn't reliably
> reproduce the bug, and that's not a terrible problem, it's just
> the kind of issue we face with P&C bugs.

That sounds good.  So when I wake up tomorrow and I see a definitive
comment on the ppc64le issue *and* Torvald's patch is committed, I'll
declare a freeze and release on Tuesday.  Otherwise we wait another day
and release on Wednesday.

Siddhesh


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