On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 03:41:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh well. rc5 was big. rc6 was small. And now rc7 is big again. In > fact, it's the biggest rc7 (at least in number of commits) we've had > in the 5.x series. > > It's mostly due to networking fixes (of which rc6 had none), and none > of them should be all that scary, but it's never great when we have > such a big rc. It's particularly annoying at the end of the release > window like this. > > End result: I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release. The fact > that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8 > this time around. But it ends up depending a bit on how the upcoming > week goes, and if things are deathly quiet, I may end up deciding that > an rc8 doesn't really make sense. > > So we'll see. > > Anyway, networking (both core and drivers) is over half of the rc7 > patch, with the rest being a fairly random collection of fixes all > over. We've got other driver updates (sound, rdma, scsi, usb..) some > fs fixes (io_uring, umount, btrfs, cifs, ocfs), minor arch fixes (arc, > arm, parisc, powerpc, s390, x86), and other misc fixes. > > The shortlog is appended, although it's obviously not as nice and > small and readable as I'd have liked at this point in the release.. > > Please do test, >
Build results: total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 460 pass: 459 fail: 1 Failed tests: sh:rts7751r2dplus_defconfig:ata:net,virtio-net:rootfs The failure bisects to commit 0f6925b3e8da ("virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head"). It is a spurious problem - the test passes roughly every other time. When the failure is seen, udhcpc fails to get an IP address and aborts with SIGTERM. So far I have only seen this with the "sh" architecture. Guenter