Re: any remaining for-6.0 issues?

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 14:58, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 14/04/2021 13:48, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > I've seen some intermittend, non-reproducible crashes with usermode QEMU in 
> > some of
> > my CI runs, e.g.:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/1178256498#L3876
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu/-/jobs/1146276208#L3241
> >
> > This was only with ccache enabled, so I thought that it might be related to 
> > my
> > work-in-progress ccache patches...
> >
> > ... but now Cornelia reported that she has seen such a crash in one of her 
> > branches,
> > too (which is completely unrelated to my ccache patches):
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/cohuck/qemu/-/jobs/1178860927#L3867
> >
> > That makes me wonder whether we currently have a real problem with 
> > user-mode in the
> > master branch? Did anybody else see such problems?
>
> I've definitely seen the same issue as Cornelia in my Gitlab CI builds for 
> the ESP
> security fixes (first version of which appeared just before rc0). The user 
> builds
> always fail on "run-tcg-tests-s390x-linux-user" for me.

Do we have any better understanding yet of the cause here?
(I ask because I think we're going to need an rc4 for other reasons,
so if there's a ready-to-go fix then we could consider it.)

thanks
-- PMM