Re: Upcoming Fedora kernel workflow changes

2020-03-12 Thread Laura Abbott
On 3/12/20 10:57 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: - Original Message - The git tags are still signed by Linus. Does that cover your concerns? Not really, no. I think that multiplying the intermediaries between kernel.org and the Fedora repos by adding gitlab.com in the middle might not b

Re: Have the 5.6 kernels dropped support for user input of entropy to the kernel?

2020-02-24 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/24/20 1:24 PM, stan wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:29:07 +0100 Florian Weimer wrote: * stan: I built my first 5.6 custom kernel from the src.rpm yesterday in F31. And my patch to enable the use of a daemon I run to gather entropy from an rtl2832 (atmospheric) and put it into the kernel

stepping down as fedora kernel maintainer

2020-01-14 Thread Laura Abbott
After quite a bit of soul searching, I've decided to step down from being a full-time Fedora kernel maintainer and move on to other things. Having come in as a relative outsider to the Fedora community almost 5 years ago, I deeply appreciate you all welcoming me with open arms. I still expect to b

Re: NO_HZ_IDLE on x86_64?

2019-12-13 Thread Laura Abbott
On 12/12/19 9:10 AM, Justin Forbes wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:48 AM Peter Robinson wrote: Hey All. In digging through some pieces around CPU_IDLE I noticed that NO_HZ_IDLE is explicitly disabled on x86_64 but not on all other architectures. Doing a "git log --follow configs/fedora/gene

Re: bringing back tools/perf into the kernel.spec file

2019-12-03 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/8/19 11:32 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, Continuing on the theme of bringing things into Fedora, one other task I'm currently looking at is bringing the tools building back into the kernel.spec file for testing purposes only. Fedora split the kernel-tools and userspace packages out i

Re: cleaning out some scripts from the kernel dist-git

2019-12-03 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/22/19 4:27 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: The kernel dist-git has a number of scripts in the script directory. Some are used for regular work (stable-update.sh, rawhide-rc.sh, rawhide-snapshot.sh) but some of them haven't been used in a long time. I'd like to delete the following

Re: [PATCH] Upstream fix for Raven Ridge

2019-11-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/24/19 12:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Hello team, Upstream provided several bug fix related to AMD APU Raven Ridge which hangs when using some applications like radeontop to read its interface [1]. Test model was 2018 HP Envy x360 Ryzen 2500U (device id 15dd): drm/amdgpu: disable gfx

Re: Building custom kernel using rpmbuild method fails with config conflicts between kernel-local and x86_64.config

2019-11-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/25/19 11:02 AM, stan wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:15:46 -0500 Laura Abbott wrote: The process_configs.sh checks are designed to catch values changing unexpecedtly the message override: PSTORE_LZ4HC_COMPRESS_DEFAULT changes choice state This indicates that some value set are now

Re: Building custom kernel using rpmbuild method fails with config conflicts between kernel-local and x86_64.config

2019-11-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/24/19 1:00 PM, stan wrote: I use the src.rpm from rawhide kernels to build a kernel custom configured for my hardware in F31, and with a local patch, using the old rpmbuild method. For rc5 this worked, when I tried rc7 it didn't. And rc8 is failing with the same error. The error message is

Re: Even though I have nobuild set for architectures, rpmbuild is processing their configs. Is this correct?

2019-11-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/24/19 1:10 PM, stan wrote: I build a custom local kernel using the rawhide kernel src.rpm here on F31. I change the spec file to build only for my arch, x86_64, and not to build cross headers. But I notice that the config files for all the nobuild archs are still processed. This seems lik

cleaning out some scripts from the kernel dist-git

2019-11-22 Thread Laura Abbott
The kernel dist-git has a number of scripts in the script directory. Some are used for regular work (stable-update.sh, rawhide-rc.sh, rawhide-snapshot.sh) but some of them haven't been used in a long time. I'd like to delete the following: - check-patchlist.sh - check-TODO.sh - combine.sh - grab-

Re: Some more upcoming Fedora kernel changes

2019-11-11 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/9/19 12:51 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Hi On 11/8/19 4:19 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, I'm looking to bring in another piece of downstream work into Fedora sometime next week. The short summary is that Fedora will be bringing in some files to build against a RHEL buildroo

bringing back tools/perf into the kernel.spec file

2019-11-08 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, Continuing on the theme of bringing things into Fedora, one other task I'm currently looking at is bringing the tools building back into the kernel.spec file for testing purposes only. Fedora split the kernel-tools and userspace packages out into a separate repository at least two years ago.

Some more upcoming Fedora kernel changes

2019-11-08 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, I'm looking to bring in another piece of downstream work into Fedora sometime next week. The short summary is that Fedora will be bringing in some files to build against a RHEL buildroot but Fedora will still be the same. The longer answer: The goal with this work is bring Fedora and RHEL cl

Re: [PATCH] Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF option

2019-11-01 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/31/19 1:04 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: hi, please consider attached patch for fedora kernel.spec. It enables CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF options to export BTF info in /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux file. I tested on x86_64/s390x/aarach64/ppc servers and the file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux shows correctly. I che

New subpackages for Fedora

2019-10-25 Thread Laura Abbott
Some of the downstream work I'm looking to bring back into Fedora is some new subpackages. Here's a brief explanation of what I'd like to bring in: - several packages with 'kabi' in the name. These are related to downstream ABI guarantees. All of the packages would be turned off for Fedora. No Fe

Talk from Flock up and a note on some upcoming work

2019-10-21 Thread Laura Abbott
If you didn't get a chance to see it, the talk I gave at Flock is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb2VS2_P6Ts . I'm linking this not for self-promotion but to give a heads up that some of the work related to this talk may start to land in Fedora. Some of the boring cleanup work will just go in

Re: Kernel 5.3 rebase plans

2019-10-08 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/8/19 6:51 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Laura Abbott schrieb am 16.09.19 um 16:24: Kernel 5.3 was released upstream yesterday Sept 16. Fedora will be following the same rebase schedule as with past kernels. This means F30 will be rebased to 5.3 first followed by F29 shortly thereafter. We

Re: Support buildid in kernel-headers

2019-09-30 Thread Laura Abbott
On 9/26/19 11:44 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:30 PM Paul Moore wrote: On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 14:48 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:47 PM Paul Moore wrote: Hello, Last year there was a change to how the kernel-headers package is built, and unfortunately t

Re: Kernel 5.3 rebase plans

2019-09-18 Thread Laura Abbott
until freeze is over) On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 10:24 -0400, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, Kernel 5.3 was released upstream yesterday Sept 16. Fedora will be following the same rebase schedule as with past kernels. This means F30 will be rebased to 5.3 first followed by F29 shortly thereafter. We typically

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Clean up some old patches post F31

2019-09-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/15/19 8:57 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: I'd like to drop a bunch of patches Fedora has been carrying since forever. Most of these are fairly minor tweaks most people forgot we had and nobody cares about. My motivation is both in the spirit of cleaning up and also to better align Fedora + RH

Kernel 5.3 rebase plans

2019-09-16 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, Kernel 5.3 was released upstream yesterday Sept 16. Fedora will be following the same rebase schedule as with past kernels. This means F30 will be rebased to 5.3 first followed by F29 shortly thereafter. We typically wait until the 2nd or 3rd stable release to push a rebase. Based on past tim

Re: kernel 5.3.0-0.rc7.git1.1 src.rpm fails at the patching stage, on the first patch.

2019-09-10 Thread Laura Abbott
On 9/10/19 4:00 PM, stan wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:18:17 +0100 Laura Abbott wrote: This looks more like the patch is being applied in the wrong directory if it can't find lib/Kconfig. Were there errors further up in the build log? No errors. And the directory and file it is lookin

Re: kernel 5.3.0-0.rc7.git1.1 src.rpm fails at the patching stage, on the first patch.

2019-09-10 Thread Laura Abbott
On 9/8/19 5:49 PM, stan wrote: Hi, I build a custom kernel with rpmbuild. The latest kernel, 5.3.0-0.rc7.git1.1, fails when it patches. I noticed that the last successful spec file had the lines shown below, while the latest doesn't. However, adding them back does not enable patches, the build

Re: [PATCH] enable driver for accessing HMC CD/DVD drive

2019-09-04 Thread Laura Abbott
On 9/4/19 3:54 PM, Dan Horák wrote: --- configs/fedora/generic/s390x/CONFIG_HMC_DRV | 1 + kernel-s390x-debug.config | 2 +- kernel-s390x.config | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 configs/fedora/generic/s390

Re: Discussion: what would not blocking on btrfs look like?

2019-08-28 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/28/19 1:58 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 07:53:20AM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote: On 8/26/19 11:39 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:16 AM Laura Abbott wrote: On 8/23/19 9:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:17 PM Adam Williamson wrote

Re: Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated

2019-08-27 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/27/19 8:46 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 27-08-19 09:14, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 PM Laura Abbott wrote: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ menuconfig SFI   bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Su

Re: Discussion: what would not blocking on btrfs look like?

2019-08-27 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/26/19 11:39 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:16 AM Laura Abbott wrote: On 8/23/19 9:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:17 PM Adam Williamson wrote: So, there was recently a Thing where btrfs installs were broken, and this got accepted as a release

Simple Firmware Interface being deprecated

2019-08-26 Thread Laura Abbott
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190826181956.6918-1-lukas.bulw...@gmail.com/ menuconfig SFI bool "SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) Support" ---help--- The Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) provides a lightweight method for platform firmware to pass information to the o

Re: Discussion: what would not blocking on btrfs look like?

2019-08-26 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/23/19 9:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:17 PM Adam Williamson wrote: So, there was recently a Thing where btrfs installs were broken, and this got accepted as a release blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733388 Summary: This bug was introduced an

Re: Discussion: what would not blocking on btrfs look like?

2019-08-23 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/23/19 1:10 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:48 PM Justin Forbes wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:17 PM Adam Williamson wrote: Hey folks! So, there was recently a Thing where btrfs installs were broken, and this got accepted as a release blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat

Re: [PATCH 2/9] Drop cpumask auto select patch

2019-08-22 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/22/19 8:58 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: On 8/19/19 9:15 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: On 8/16/19 2:57 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: Florian Weimer schreef op vr 16-08-2019 om 14:04 [+0200]: RHEL has a larger NR_CPU value, though.  For example, it's 8192 on x86-64, while Fedora 31 has 1024. O

Re: test patch for zswap bug

2019-08-19 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/19/19 3:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get the following test patch in a Rawhide kernel as a one off for testing? Or is that a PITA? Ordinarily I'd just build a kernel myself locally, but that build machine is in a very confused Rawhide<-->Branched state and so I can't. B

Re: [PATCH 2/9] Drop cpumask auto select patch

2019-08-19 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/16/19 2:55 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: Hi Laura, Laura Abbott schreef op do 15-08-2019 om 15:57 [-0400]: .../fedora/generic/x86/x86_64/CONFIG_NR_CPUS | 2 +- kernel.spec | 2 -- ...-CPUMASK_OFFSTACK-usable-without-deb.patch | 34 --- 3

Re: [PATCH 2/9] Drop cpumask auto select patch

2019-08-19 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/16/19 2:57 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: Florian Weimer schreef op vr 16-08-2019 om 14:04 [+0200]: RHEL has a larger NR_CPU value, though. For example, it's 8192 on x86-64, while Fedora 31 has 1024. On the Fedora x86-64 debug builds it's 8192 again. Why's that? Paul Bolle That's the option

Re: [PATCH 2/9] Drop cpumask auto select patch

2019-08-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/16/19 6:58 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:57 PM Laura Abbott wrote: We've been carrying a patch to make CPUMASK_OFFSTACK selectable without debugging for a long time now. The comment said this was going to be replaced with something else but that never seemed to h

Re: [PATCH 6/9] Remove some old modalias adjustments

2019-08-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/16/19 7:00 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:58 PM Laura Abbott wrote: We've come a long way. Let's just leave these drivers alone. Can we not build them at all instead? Or put them in modules-extra if we're too chicken to disable them entirely. I like

Re: [PATCH 9/9] Remove crash driver

2019-08-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/16/19 6:56 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 4:02 PM Laura Abbott wrote: This has since been replaced by other in kernel pieces. We can finally drop it. Which pieces? /proc/kcore now does most of the work of the crash driver. I've helped fix up misc pieces in the

[PATCH 9/9] Remove crash driver

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
This has since been replaced by other in kernel pieces. We can finally drop it. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- crash-driver.patch | 722 - kernel.spec| 2 - 2 files changed, 724 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 crash-driver.patch diff

[PATCH 8/9] Remove patch for GCC VTA

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
It's been years and gcc has changed a lot. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- Kbuild-Add-an-option-to-enable-GCC-VTA.patch | 94 kernel.spec | 2 - 2 files changed, 96 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Kbuild-Add-an-option-to-enabl

[PATCH 7/9] Remove old keyboard logging patch

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
Let's see if this results in flooding. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- input-kill-stupid-messages.patch | 30 -- kernel.spec | 2 -- 2 files changed, 32 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 input-kill-stupid-messages.patch diff --git a/input

[PATCH 6/9] Remove some old modalias adjustments

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
We've come a long way. Let's just leave these drivers alone. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- die-floppy-die.patch | 29 - kernel.spec | 4 no-pcspkr-modalias.patch | 22 -- 3 files changed, 55 deletions(-) d

[PATCH 4/9] Remove ancient ath9k workaround

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
It's been years. Let's see if we actually still need this. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- ath9k-rx-dma-stop-check.patch | 38 --- kernel.spec | 2 -- 2 files changed, 40 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 ath9k-rx-dma-stop-check.p

[PATCH 2/9] Drop cpumask auto select patch

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
k it's worth it since the upper bound is now 512. This should be enough for most Fedora use cases so just drop the patch. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- .../fedora/generic/x86/x86_64/CONFIG_NR_CPUS | 2 +- kernel.spec | 2 -- ...-CPUMASK_OFFSTACK-usab

[PATCH 3/9] Drop scsi warning patch

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
It's been years since we've seen this warning. Just drop it. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- kernel.spec | 2 - ...validate_disk-prevent-NULL-ptr-deref.patch | 39 --- 2 files changed, 41 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 scsi-sd_reval

[PATCH 1/9] Drop namespaces config tweak

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
We've come a long way for namespaces since 2013 and all arches now enable namespaces. Drop the patch where we can turn it off and on. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- kernel.spec| 2 -- namespaces-no-expert.patch | 27 --- 2 files changed, 29 dele

[PATCH 5/9] Drop old lis3 patch

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
We've been carrying this patch for years. If someone wants to do the work to get it upstream, they are welcome to do so. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott --- kernel.spec | 2 - lis3-improve-handling-of-null-rate.patch | 75 2 files change

[PATCH 0/9] Clean up some old patches post F31

2019-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
video should be up soon). If someone wants to make an effort at upstreaming any of these, feel free to do so but I really think most of these are cruft. Thanks, Laura Laura Abbott (9): Drop namespaces config tweak Drop cpumask auto select patch Drop scsi warning patch Remove ancient

Re: Certificate used to sign Fedora kernels for UEFI Secure Boot?

2019-08-14 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/14/19 8:35 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:03 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: On 8/12/19 8:35 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:23 AM Paul Moore wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:31 AM Paul Moore wrote: Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the place for this, but if

Re: [PATCH] ppc: enable 8250 serial ports

2019-08-01 Thread Laura Abbott
On 8/1/19 2:21 AM, Dan Horák wrote: --- configs/fedora/generic/powerpc/CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 | 1 - configs/fedora/generic/powerpc/CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE | 1 - kernel-ppc64le-debug.config | 4 ++-- kernel-ppc64le.config | 4 ++-- 4 files changed,

Re: [PATCH] enable NVRAM driver on ppc

2019-07-26 Thread Laura Abbott
On 7/26/19 5:07 AM, Dan Horák wrote: NVRAM is enabled by default in the mainline kernel on all ppc machines. Related: #1732612 --- configs/fedora/generic/powerpc/CONFIG_NVRAM | 1 + kernel-ppc64le-debug.config | 2 +- kernel-ppc64le.config | 2 +- 3 fil

Re: [fedora-arm] Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Fedora ARM & AArch64 status meeting

2019-07-23 Thread Laura Abbott
On 7/23/19 4:19 AM, Jon Masters wrote: On 7/19/19 1:09 PM, Jon Masters wrote: On 7/4/19 6:12 PM, Jon Masters wrote: I think we have identified the root cause of the 32-bit builder issue. Many thanks to Paul and Peter for assistance in debugging. Here's my write-up, and we'll work with the vend

Re: 5.3.0-rc kernel-headers in rawhide and mass rebuild

2019-07-19 Thread Laura Abbott
On 7/18/19 3:37 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: Do you plan to leave in the -rc kernel headers for the mass rebuild? We see some rather odd issues with it when building glibc, and have trouble getting glibc ready for the mass rebuild. Thanks, Florian Yes, I screwed those up. https://koji.fedorapro

Re: [PATCH] configs: remove CONFIG_ASIX_PHY

2019-07-11 Thread Laura Abbott
On 7/10/19 2:49 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: The Kconfig symbol ASIX_PHY was renamed to AX88796B_PHY in v5.2-rc6, see upstream commit a9520543b123 ("net: phy: rename Asix Electronics PHY driver"). CONFIG_AX88796B_PHY is already used in the configuration generation system, so we can safely remove CONFIG_

Re: Enable CONFIG_RC_XBOX_DVD ?

2019-07-09 Thread Laura Abbott
On 7/8/19 9:20 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hey, Would it be possible to enable the CONFIG_RC_XBOX_DVD kernel config, as a module, so that they can be used with Fedora? While the device itself might look like it isn't compatible with anything but an original XBox: https://retro.poromagia.com/media

Re: Can Fedora enable CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK ?

2019-05-20 Thread Laura Abbott
On 5/18/19 11:48 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote: Hi I was surprised to realize that Fedora kernels do not enable CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK.  Is there any reason why it should not enable it? Fedora kernels appear to be an outlier here, v.s. RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu and SUSE. I'm not taking a postion on whet

Re: [PATCH] kernel-tools.spec: Adding libbpf package

2019-05-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 5/16/19 2:42 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 06:38:38PM +, Jeremy Cline wrote: Hi Jiri, On 4/2/19 6:35 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: hi, please consider attached change that adds libbpf sub package to be generated within kernel-tools spec. We need libbpf in a separate package, star

please remember to test F28 kernels

2019-04-04 Thread Laura Abbott
F28 is seeing a pretty big fall off in karma for new kernels. This is somewhat expected as we move towards F30 release. If you happen to have an F28 system around, please remember to test and give karma. Thanks, Laura ___ kernel mailing list -- kernel@l

Rebase plans for kernel 5.0

2019-03-04 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, As you probably have seen, kernel 5.0 was released last night. This has been built in rawhide. We'll be following the usual rebase procedure for f29 and f28: Around the time when 5.0.2 or 5.0.3 is released, that kernel will go into f29. f28 will be rebased shortly afterwards. We don't have an

Re: kernel bug triage cc list

2019-02-25 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/25/19 1:42 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, Reading this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage#Triage_Quickstart Is it possible to get bugzi...@colorremedies.com added to distribution whenever a bug is set to CC fedora-kernel-bt...@fedoraproject.org ? Thanks, No objections here. It

Re: toolchain requirements for external kernel modules

2019-02-19 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/19/19 10:47 AM, Dulaney wrote: On Gearr 18, 2019 aig 12:26:04f -0800, sgrìobh Laura Abbott: Yes, that was the case I was concerned about with gcc being updated. I guess the case would be where the kernel gets built with a different gcc that isn't yet on a local system. Doing a ba

Help remove scriptlets from the kernel?

2019-02-18 Thread Laura Abbott
At DevConf a few weeks ago, Stephen Gallagher and Will Woods gave a talk about removing rpm scriptlets. The recording hasn't been uploaded yet but the slides are available https://schd.ws/hosted_files/devconfcz2019/bc/scriptlet-reform-school-3.pdf The kernel uses a few scriptlets at the moment wh

Re: toolchain requirements for external kernel modules

2019-02-18 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/15/19 3:47 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Laura Abbott: I've been experimenting with enabling CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS in the kernel since I've heard some people express interest in stackleak (I'm interested as well). a gcc plugin gets built as an .so file for use during compilation

Re: toolchain requirements for external kernel modules

2019-02-18 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/14/19 4:19 PM, stan wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:09:04 -0800 Laura Abbott wrote: Can anyone see major problems with requiring the same toolchain version for building external modules as the kernel? If gcc is updated between Fedora kernel versions and someone wants to build a module

toolchain requirements for external kernel modules

2019-02-14 Thread Laura Abbott
I've been experimenting with enabling CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS in the kernel since I've heard some people express interest in stackleak (I'm interested as well). a gcc plugin gets built as an .so file for use during compilation. This means we need to package this .so file as part of kernel-devel for bui

Re: re-enable CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL on s390x

2019-02-11 Thread Laura Abbott
On 2/11/19 1:57 PM, Dan Horák wrote: Hi, the root cause of https://marc.info/?t=15482482101&r=1&w=2 was fixed in gcc trunk (only) and it's now available in gcc-9.0.1-0.4.fc30. Something like the patch bellow is needed, but things get complicated, because the new constraint won't be availabl

Re: Backporting some patches to use i915.fastboot=1 by default

2019-01-27 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/25/19 12:43 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, To complete flickerfree boot support and remove the last modeset on systems using an Intel iGPU, I've been working with i915 upstream to make i915.fastboot=1 the default, this is part of: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FlickerFreeBoot I've j

s390x kernel disabled on Fedora rawhide

2019-01-24 Thread Laura Abbott
gcc9 exposed an underlying issue with some inline asm on s390x. I've emailed upstream about the issue but it's still not fixed. In the interest of continuing to test kernels, I've disabled this arch in rawhide kernels for now. I'll be keeping an eye on this and plan to turn this arch back on as so

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Don't require python3 for a string replace

2019-01-15 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/15/19 1:44 AM, pa...@fliagreco.com.ar wrote: From: Pablo Greco --- kernel.spec | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec index 280..25ad968 100644 --- a/kernel.spec +++ b/kernel.spec @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ BuildKernel() { #

Re: kernel 5 new option to zero the kernel stack on return from kernel functions, worthwhile for workstation?

2019-01-15 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/15/19 8:51 AM, stan wrote: I compiled a custom fedora 5.0 kernel, and one of the new options was to have the kernel zero the stack on return from kernel functions. The cost was about 1% on a single cpu system. I made the judgement that this would be great on cloud servers, but wasn't reall

Re: [PATCH] configs: add arm file for CONFIG_PCI_MESON

2019-01-14 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/12/19 3:13 AM, Paul Bolle wrote: Commit c9c254b74995 ("minor Arm config tweaks") set CONFIG_PCI_MESON to 'y' for all shipped arm and aarch64 .config files. It didn't add the corrresponding change to the configuration generation directory. Do so now. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle --- configs/

Re: [PATCH] configs: Correct four non-standard filenames

2019-01-14 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/12/19 9:37 AM, Paul Bolle wrote: These non-standard filenames have no effect on the build, but should still be fixed since they could be confusing (to people and scripts). Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle --- ...FIG_ALTERA_PR_IP_CORE_PLAT=n => CONFIG_ALTERA_PR_IP_CORE_PLAT} | 0 configs/fedora

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Kconfig symbol cleanup for v5.0-rc1

2019-01-14 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/11/19 6:55 AM, Paul Bolle wrote: This short series cleans up all references to Kconfig symbols that have no effect on the build. This series is way too boring to review. But it can be tested by comparing the generated .config files (in the BUILD directory) before and after this series. Thes

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Kconfig symbol cleanup for v5.0-rc1

2019-01-11 Thread Laura Abbott
On 1/11/19 7:16 AM, Paul Bolle wrote: Peter Robinson schreef op vr 11-01-2019 om 15:04 [+]: On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:56 PM Paul Bolle wrote: configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_RTC | 1 - I'm pretty sure RTC is still a very valid option. Upstream says: depends on ALPHA

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Enable CONFIG_NET_SCH_ETF

2018-12-28 Thread Laura Abbott
On 12/28/18 1:34 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: Hello folks, is there anything I can do for this patch-set to get maintainers' attention? Thanks! In the future, please wait a longer time before asking about the status, especially given this was over a holiday break. I applied the patch to rawhi

Re: Which I/O scheduler is Fedora switching to in 4.21? mq-deadline or BFQ?

2018-12-13 Thread Laura Abbott
On 12/11/18 3:48 AM, Alan Jenkins wrote: Hi mattdm suggested the upcoming scheduler change should be discussed here.[1] I might not have enough time to talk details at the moment, but I noticed this is coming up relatively soon. This is what I understand so far about the decision. Thanks for

Re: ext4 file system corruption -> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

2018-12-04 Thread Laura Abbott
On 12/3/18 8:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.12.18 um 17:42 schrieb Laura Abbott: On 12/2/18 6:20 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: how does Fedora think to handle https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685 4.18.20 is the last 4.18.x and happily at least 4.18.20 from F27 runs fine on F28

Re: ext4 file system corruption -> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

2018-12-03 Thread Laura Abbott
On 12/2/18 6:20 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: how does Fedora think to handle https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685 4.18.20 is the last 4.18.x and happily at least 4.18.20 from F27 runs fine on F28 systems but given that bug upgrade to 4.19.x seems to be just a lottery with your data - o

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix all Kconfig "override" warnings

2018-11-15 Thread Laura Abbott
On 11/13/18 8:57 AM, Paul Bolle wrote: For some time now the build generates a number of override warnings, like this one: [...]:warning: override: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE changes choice state These warnings are triggered when the build uses a .config that has more than one option set in

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Disable kernel-headers only in Fedora

2018-10-11 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/11/2018 05:58 AM, pa...@fliagreco.com.ar wrote: From: Pablo Greco --- kernel.spec | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec index 311ef4c..e90a714 100644 --- a/kernel.spec +++ b/kernel.spec @@ -125,8 +125,10 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel %define d

Re: F28 kernels should not have CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER set

2018-10-09 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/09/2018 06:34 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, I just noticed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1637547 getting filed. I'm suspicious that this may be caused by the new deferred fbcon takeover stuff. So I double checked the settings in the fedpkg f28 branch and I noticed that CONFI

Re: Disabling kernel's hibernate support by default, allow re-enabling it with a kernel cmdline option

2018-10-02 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/02/2018 08:18 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Di, 02.10.18 14:34, Hans de Goede (hdego...@redhat.com) wrote: Ok fair enough. Keeping it easy for users to try out hibernate is a valid argument. This is just weird. Why would GNOME expose a button to regular user that reads "hey, press me

Re: Disabling kernel's hibernate support by default, allow re-enabling it with a kernel cmdline option

2018-10-02 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/02/2018 09:16 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: - Original Message - On Di, 02.10.18 10:16, Bastien Nocera (bnoc...@redhat.com) wrote: Until the kernel can use a dedicated partition for hibernation, which would fix the majority of problems users can encounter, we're just offering more

Re: Disabling kernel's hibernate support by default, allow re-enabling it with a kernel cmdline option

2018-10-02 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/02/2018 08:12 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Can you give examples of other kernel subsystems that are also advertised as available by the Fedora kernel, and part of the core kernel RPM but are of this "tech preview" kind? Another example would be kexec. The Fedora kernel nominally support

Re: Headsup: Adding "efi/x86: Call efi_parse_options() from efi_main()" to F29+ kernels

2018-09-13 Thread Laura Abbott
On 09/13/2018 06:25 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, I've been getting some reports that the kernel is not fully quiet / the boot is not fully smooth / flickerfree when using secure boot. This is fixed by this patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/commit/?id=ecb77f61f1

Re: 4.18 Rebase plans

2018-09-06 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/14/2018 09:14 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, As you probably saw, 4.18 was released on Sunday. The 4.18 kernel was built for rawhide yesterday. We will be following roughly the same rebase schedule as in the past. F28 will get the rebase first, typically around 4.18.2 or 4.18.3 followed by

Re: 4.18 Rebase plans

2018-08-29 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/29/2018 01:05 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: "LA" == Laura Abbott writes: LA> My current plan is to push the F28 rebase early next week. If you LA> get a chance, please test the F29 kernel or the package in the LA> kernel-stabilization COPR. I thought we w

Re: 4.18 Rebase plans

2018-08-29 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/17/2018 06:57 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: On 08/14/2018 09:14 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, As you probably saw, 4.18 was released on Sunday. The 4.18 kernel was built for rawhide yesterday. We will be following roughly the same rebase schedule as in the past. F28 will get the rebase first

Re: 4.18 Rebase plans

2018-08-17 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/14/2018 09:14 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, As you probably saw, 4.18 was released on Sunday. The 4.18 kernel was built for rawhide yesterday. We will be following roughly the same rebase schedule as in the past. F28 will get the rebase first, typically around 4.18.2 or 4.18.3 followed by

Re: 4.18 Rebase plans

2018-08-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/16/2018 05:27 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 14-08-18 18:14, Laura Abbott wrote: Hi, As you probably saw, 4.18 was released on Sunday. The 4.18 kernel was built for rawhide yesterday. We will be following roughly the same rebase schedule as in the past. F28 will get the rebase first

Re: Kernel lockdown patch & IPAddressAllow/IPAddressDeny systemd feature with Secure Boot

2018-08-16 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/15/2018 07:10 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 07:14:00AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: [Removed Fedora devel list because it's subscriber-only] On Aug 8, 2018, at 12:29 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: Probably a good idea to cc: this to the kernel list :-) I suspect

Re: something is wrong with the Fedora "l1tf" patches

2018-08-15 Thread Laura Abbott
On 08/15/2018 01:21 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: * Di Aug 14 2018 Justin M. Forbes - 4.17.14-101 - Fix "Foreshadow" CVE-2018-3620 CVE-2018-3646 (rhbz 1585005 1615998) - CentOS 6: 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 [root@honeypot:~]$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/c

4.18 Rebase plans

2018-08-14 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, As you probably saw, 4.18 was released on Sunday. The 4.18 kernel was built for rawhide yesterday. We will be following roughly the same rebase schedule as in the past. F28 will get the rebase first, typically around 4.18.2 or 4.18.3 followed by F27 shortly thereafter. My best guess for when

Re: Adding deferred fbcon console takeover to the Fedora kernels

2018-07-30 Thread Laura Abbott
On 07/30/2018 08:18 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 02-07-18 13:55, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, On 28-06-18 16:19, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, Good news on the patch to make the loglevel for quiet configurable, this has been accepted into -next now. I plan to add this to the Fedora kernels

Re: src.rpm for latest kernel in koji fails to build with weird errors about config mismatches

2018-07-30 Thread Laura Abbott
On 07/30/2018 09:02 AM, stan wrote: I downloaded the src.rpm from koji, and then used rpm -ivh to install it into the ~/rpmbuild tree. Expanded the src with rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec I used the last build config file to run make oldconfig with no errors or additions. Then I copied that config to

Re: src.rpm for latest kernel in koji fails to build with weird errors about config mismatches

2018-07-30 Thread Laura Abbott
On 07/29/2018 10:43 AM, stan wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 10:12:04 -0700 stan wrote: Hi, I build the kernel every few weeks from the koji rawhide src.rpm for the latest kernel version. This has been working fine for the 4.18 kernels until the latest version. Since I'm only building locally fo

Re: [help] where is git tree of upstream source of the kernel ?

2018-07-23 Thread Laura Abbott
On 07/23/2018 11:15 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:06 PM Laura Abbott wrote On 07/22/2018 12:12 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:49:36 +0100 Sérgio Basto wrote: Hello , I need bisect kernel between kernel 4.15-git1 and 4.15.0-git2 where I find a git tree with

Re: [help] where is git tree of upstream source of the kernel ?

2018-07-23 Thread Laura Abbott
On 07/22/2018 12:12 PM, stan wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:49:36 +0100 Sérgio Basto wrote: Hello , I need bisect kernel between kernel 4.15-git1 and 4.15.0-git2 where I find a git tree with these commits (patch-4.14-git1.xz to patch-4.14-git2.xz) ? this request is related with my nvidia

parallel debuginfo for kernel (plus hardening flags)

2018-07-12 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, The kbuild kernel maintainer has accepted the last changes needed for unique build ids upstream so I went ahead and applied the series to rawhide. This means that parallel debuginfo should actually work for future kernel builds. As part of this change, I also enabled the hardening flags for t

Requests for kernel related quick-docs?

2018-06-19 Thread Laura Abbott
Hi, If you haven't seen it, Fedora has a new documentation project called quick-docs to move information off the wiki, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/index.html We've started moving some of the kernel information there. Any requests for kernel related items you'd like documented?

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