From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: "Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@citrix.com>,
"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
"Oleksandr Andrushchenko" <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu@kernel.org>, "Paul Durrant" <paul@xen.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Stopping much Linux testing in Xen Project CI
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:06:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffd2d2c8-572d-a043-26ea-19e4a44b0fda@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24170.26671.783256.460525@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 12.03.20 17:49, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Linux stable branches, and Linux upstream tip, are badly broken and
> have been for months. Apparently no-one is able to (or has time to)
> to investigate and fix.
>
> linux-4.4 218 days to be suspended
> linux-4.9 134 days to be suspended
> linux-4.14 134 days to be suspended
> linux-4.19 134 days to be suspended
> linux-5.4 55 days
> linux-arm-xen up to date
> linux-linus 372 days to be suspended
>
> These are times since the last push - ie, how long it has been broken.
> Evidently no-one is paying any attention to this.[1] I looked at the
> reports myself and:
>
> Nested HVM is broken on Intel in all of the 4.x branches.
I was looking into the test failures multiple times, and always found
that problem. Honestly I don't see how this should be the kernel's
fault, so I rather quick gave up each time.
> Additionally:
>
> Linux 4.4 has some intermittent guest start failure for 32-bit PV.
>
> Linux 4.14 does not boot on 32-bit ARM. There are also some 64-bit
> x86 migration failures.
>
> The most recent reports (last week or two) are afflicted by underlying
> CI problems - what look like sticky PDU relays, or what may be
> problems in the Debian mirror network (I have definitely seen problems
> there), so the reports are rather noisy. Sorry about that. I am
> trying to improve this situation but it is quite difficult [2]. But
> overall it is clear that the underlying code is broken.
I know I have said so before: I still think that our tests relying on
the Debian servers (and their ongoing support for a selected version)
is not the optimal setup.
Juergen
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-12 16:49 [Xen-devel] Stopping much Linux testing in Xen Project CI Ian Jackson
2020-03-12 16:51 ` Ian Jackson
2020-03-12 17:06 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2020-03-12 17:55 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-03-13 9:13 ` Jan Beulich
2020-03-13 10:21 ` Jürgen Groß
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