Re: [PULL 0/1] Linux user for 5.0 patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 20:08, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 18:16, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Le 16/04/2020 à 18:03, Peter Maydell a écrit :
> > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 16:29, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The following changes since commit 
> > >> 20038cd7a8412feeb49c01f6ede89e36c8995472:
> > >>
> > >>   Update version for v5.0.0-rc3 release (2020-04-15 20:51:54 +0100)
> > >>
> > >> are available in the Git repository at:
> > >>
> > >>   git://github.com/vivier/qemu.git tags/linux-user-for-5.0-pull-request
> > >>
> > >> for you to fetch changes up to 386d38656889a40d29b514ee6f34997ca18f741e:
> > >>
> > >>   linux-user/syscall.c: add target-to-host mapping for epoll_create1() 
> > >> (2020-04-16 09:24:22 +0200)
> > >>
> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >> Fix epoll_create1() for qemu-alpha
> > >>
> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > How critical is this bug fix? After rc3, I really don't want
> > > to have to create an rc4 unless it's unavoidable...
> >
> > See the launchpad bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/717548): on alpha, it
> > prevents the use of python3 in gentoo chroot, and thus we can't use
> > emerge to install packages. It also impacts cmake on debian (see
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860553).
> >
> > But it's not a regression, so up to you to reject it. It appears now
> > because most of the distro have switched from python2 to python3.
> >
> > It's a low risk change, only in linux-user and for archs that have a
> > different EPOLL_CLOEXEC value.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I think that I'll put it to one
> side and if we need an rc4 for some other reason it can go in,
> but it's not sufficiently major to merit an rc4 by itself.

We needed an rc4 for the iscsi fix, so I have applied this pullreq.

thanks
-- PMM