Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-10-06)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 11:57:39 GMT 2025


Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2025-10-06 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

​ * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 636 patches.
  * Starting at 121334.
  * [v3] manual: describe syscall numbers not supported via syscall() (Yury)
   * Yury: No RB?
   * Adhemerval: Will respond on list.
  * aarch64: clear SME ZA state for clone{,3} syscalls (Yury)
   * Several discussions in mailing list.
   * No proper consensus.
   * Discussed the state of required tests.
   * Agreed that new tests are part of v5.
   * Adhemerval: Thanks, I will review.
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * realloc: Do not call madvise if oldsize >= THP size (Jain)
   * Adhemerval: I'll review as I look at THP.
  * Support translated names in getopt and argp (Vivien)
   * codonell: Marked DCO or assignment missing.
  * [1/2] localedata: allow reproducible & parallel install of locale-archive (Bosch)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ Delorie.
  * [v2] atomic: Use standard atomic fences for barriers (Wilco)
   * Adhemerval: I kept the barriers that were different.
   * Adhemerval: Would it be better to push my cleanup that doesn't change any code generation? Then evaluate yours that uses different code in the generic implementation.
   * Wilco: Can do that.
   * Adhemerval: Can rebase again and your patch on top?
   * Carlos: The highest impact is going to be on s390x, we should get IBM to give feedback on the synchronization changes. Can we reach out to Stefan and Andreas?
   * Carlos: Get Adhemerval's changes in the tree with IBM's approval and then work to review Wilco's changes.
   * Next steps, Adhemerval to repost and ask for IBM's review.
  * atomic: Remove atomic_forced_read (Wilco)
   * Reviewer Pool: Yury.
  * Linux header update for 6.13 and later (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos.
  * [v2] Implement C23 memalignment (Joseph)
   * Reviewer Pool: Florian.
  * Stopped at 121171

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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