Hi Andrew, > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> > Subject: [PATCH for-4.17] CI: Force CONFIG_XEN_IBT in the buster-gcc-ibt test > > buster-gcc-ibt is a dedicated test to run a not-yet-upstreamed compiler patch > which is relevant to CONFIG_XEN_IBT in 4.17 and later. > > Force it on, rather than having 50% of the jobs not testing what they're > supposed to be testing. > > Fixes: 5d59421815d5 ("x86: Use control flow typechecking where possible") > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> > --- > CC: Doug Goldstein <[email protected]> > CC: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]> > CC: Henry Wang <[email protected]> > > For 4.17: This is bugfix to CI only, to avoid it producing a false negative. > Currently, the test intermittently fails to spot the error it was intended to > identify. It is very low risk as far as the 4.17 release goes. > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen/- > /jobs/3084774561#L373 for > proof that CONFIG_XEN_IBT=y is being fed into allrandom.config
Thanks for sending this patch! I agree that considering this patch to 4.17 is low risk, and as long as this patch is properly reviewed by CI maintainers, you can have my: Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <[email protected]> Kind regards, Henry
