[PING][PATCH] Fix amd64->i386 linux syscall restart problem

[Kevin Buettner]

Hi Tom,

Yes, that's right, those two commits are needed.  I've looked it over.  It
looks good to me.

Kevin

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:42:51 +0200
Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> wrote:

> On 08-07-19 19:00, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:34:46 +0200
> > Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 21-05-19 14:59, Tom de Vries wrote:  
> >>> On 11-04-19 02:16, Kevin Buettner wrote:    
> >>>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:42:30 +0100
> >>>> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>    
> >>>>>> Below is a diff showing the new comments.  It also includes the
> >>>>>> changes which wrap the multi-line expressions in parens.      
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks, that new version of the comment looks great.    
> >>>>
> >>>> It's in now.  Thanks for the review.    
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> the tests fixed by this commit fail on the 8.3 branch (filed as PR24592).
> >>>
> >>> The commit applies cleanly on the 8.3 branch, and make the tests pass.
> >>>
> >>> OK to backport?    
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> [ Ping. ]
> >>
> >> I'm probably missing some context here. It seems sofar there are no
> >> commits to the 8.3 branch. AFAIU, a respin release 8.3.1 is targeted for
> >> 3 months after 8.3, so around 11th of August.
> >>
> >> What kind of fixes are acceptable for the respin? Do they have to be
> >> regression fixes? Or are functionality fixes like this one also allowed?
> >> Who's responsibility is it to backport fixes?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> - Tom  
> > 
> > I'm okay with it going into the next point release for 8.3.  
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I noticed the follow-up commit e90a813d96 "Fix regression caused by
> recently added syscall restart code". I reproduced the regression with
> the 8.3 branch + commit 3f52fdbcb5, and confirmed that the follow-up
> commit fixes it, so I suppose this one is necessary as well.
> 
> Since this is the first time I'm pushing something to a gdb release
> branch, I'm posting here the two pre-commit-formatted patches for review.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Tom
> 
>