Hi, some personal notes on this release.
Several warnings and call-traces which I saw in Linux-next (upcoming v3.20) turned out to be also issues in v3.19. [1] aio: annotate aio_read_event_ring for sleep patterns [2] tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks [3] x86/tlb/trace: Do not trace on CPU that is offline Some words to [1]: Honestly people should reply with pointing to a fix if I give them my precious life-time. By accident I found the fix when gasping over the last changes to v3.19. I could spent some more time on "how to test a linux-kernel?", but there should come clear words from experienced maintainers and/or "father of Linux". Personally, I test with my kernel-config and want to have a quick feedback if it's "good". Thus I used to run LTP "lite" script on my "rc" and "-next" kernels. In case of filesystems fio [4] helped me to trigger some bugs (replaced for me xfstests). I am not sure if Documentation directory contains hints especially in the topic of "testing a Linux kernel". It's interesting to see "kbuild test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>" [5] as an author of patches :-). IOW that beast helped to trigger a lot of "build" bugs - my big respect! Nevertheless, I prefer to run any of my kernels on bare metal. Hope this helps. Regards, - Sedat - [1] http://marc.info/?t=141929396100001&r=1&w=2 [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2077075?page=last [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c9ce763b114e608b5cf3aa6cb69ad9f6e8b6adf [2,3] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4e02370f64167a30ff7ba35ae5bc296f09b964d3 [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a05d59a5673339ef6936d6940cdf68172ce75b9f [3] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c8465a82a605bc692304bab42703017dcfff013 [4] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git/ [5] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
