On 21/06/2017 10:08, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 06/21/2017 03:06 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: >> >> >> On 21/06/2017 08:45, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> On 06/20/2017 10:53 PM, Stephen Bates wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I've already sent this patch to Al twice (including a stable tag), >>>>>> but it didn't seem to make it anywhere. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have ideas how we move this along? This is the missing link in allowing applications to request IO polling… >>> >>> Is this still an issue with the upstream kernel? >>> >>> As far as I can tell, Greg Kroah-Hartman queued the fix for 4.9 and >>> 4.11, and the fix is in mainline, too: >>> >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20223f0f39ea9d31ece08f04ac79f8c4e8d98246 >> >> Would it be acceptable to add an issue that stress this issue on glibc? > > Sure, except that it is difficult to pull a guaranteed-to-be-invalid > combination of flags out of thin air. Even -1 might eventually cease to > work. > > Thanks, > Florian > Yes, we will need to update the testcase in case of newer flags additions. But since the flags are currently defined within GLIBC not pulling from kernel header I think we will have more control over it.
