Re: Call for help - fixes for 19.11.x in regard to new toolchains, kernels ...

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 9:38 AM Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone and maintainers in particular,
>
> I wanted to use this chance for an extra call for help before we later
> on this year call 19.11
> EOL and done. There have been a bunch of issues found in the 19.11 testing.
>
> We have had a few extra respins of 19.11.9 this time which resolved a
> few of them, but others are still left. They are mostly due to new
> toolchains and seem not to apply to 20.11 and later.
> But there are also no clear fixes known to me (have not come up in the
> discussions and not tagged for stable@) to resolve them.
>
> I have linked to the release notes in the announcement mail, but I
> expect only a few will scroll through to the known issues. Due to
> various other responsibilities and an upcoming PTO I can't spend much
> time before we are back in backporting-efforts for 19.11.10.
> Therefore I wanted to reach out explicitly for anyone willing and able
> to help to have a look at those issues to maybe resolve a bunch of
> them in 19.11.10 later on this year.
>
> The list of known issues in 19.11.9 are:
> - A Build issue with clang 12.0.1
>   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
> - A make build issue with Fedora 34 with GCC11
>   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744
> - Meson based build issues with ICC-19.1.1
>   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747
> - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 fails of kni build
>   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728
>   http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031210.html)

Since this overall topic seems to come up on every new stable release,
let me add a few new bugs of the same kind that got filed recently
(thanks test teams!)

Of the above:
- 745 is fixed in 19.11.11-rc1
- 900 reported on 19.11.11-rc1 fixed in 19.11.11-rc2 (about to be released)
- 728 is fixed in 19.11.11-rc2 (about to be released)

But overall the above list has grown and nowadays is:
old:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744       DPDK    core    dev
    [dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] make build failed on Fedora34 with GCC11 and
build failed on Fedora35 with gcc11.2.1&clang13.0.0
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747       DPDK    core    dev
    [dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] Meson build failed with ICC-19.1.1
new:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901       DPDK    ethdev  dev
  [19.11.11-rc1] net/i40e build failure with make and clang 13
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902       DPDK    ethdev  dev
  [19.11.11-rc1] net/ice build failure with make and clang 13
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903       DPDK    ethdev  dev
  [19.11.11-rc1] net/ixgbe build failure with make and clang 13
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904       DPDK    meson   dev
 [dpdk-19.11.11] Meson build has some failures on Fedora35 with clang
13.0.0
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905       DPDK    meson   dev
 [dpdk-19.11.11-rc1]Meson&Makefile build failed on Freebsd13 with
gcc10.3.0&clang11.0.1

> P.S. Thanks @David for encouraging me to bring it up here.
> P.P.S. I've submitted this to everyone listed in the current
> Maintainers file, sorry if that hits a few people more than needed,
> but better that way than being missed.
>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd