Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 2/2] RFC: enable CONFIG_LIVEPATCH in all relevant arm64 builds [and 1 more messages]

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 05.06.19 at 13:31, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I still think it would be better to fix this in the Xen code.
> 
> Fully agree. But as Julien says - fully fixing this may be too intrusive
> for old branches (provided it gets fixed on master at all).

In case it looked like I was of a different opinion let me expand on
what I wrote before.

I fully agree that we should fix it in the Xen code, in the stable
trees. Especially given that we have a "fix" to backport.
Work-arounding it in OSSTest is only a last resort.

However, there is a separate point about having consistent build flags
across the OSSTest tests that I think it is worth considering, that goes
beyond this specific issue. I wrote a longer reply in [1]. In this
regard I think that enabling CONFIG_LIVEPATCH for all our branches, as
Jan mentioned, then introducing separate flights with a different set of
CONFIG_* would probably be a good way forward.


[1] alpine.DEB.2.21.1906041132030.14041@sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s

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