Comment 14 for bug 1894942

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2020-10-13 12:41 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #75)
> (In reply to comment #72)
> > Checking SRU compatibility:
> >
> > #1 Source
> > Focal: some (minor) backport noise
> > Bionic: the same backport of Focal applies with offsets.
> > Xenial: some more nois (tracepoint missing), but still ok
> >
> > Not as-is, but pretty close - should be ok
> >
> > #2 Builds
> > I have started builds of those in
> > https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4270
> >
> > #3 testing
> > The builds in the PPA succeeded now.
> > I'd ask IBM to verify with their tests to check if they can
> > a) trigger the issue on those releases
> > and
> > b) if the PPA then is fixing for them as expected.
>
> Both focal and xenial look good: the issue can be triggered with an up to
> date distro qemu and can not be triggered with the PPA qemu.
>
> I've ran ran into some unrelated issues with bionic, I will try to test
> there as well after the impediments are out of the way.
>
> Let me also note, that with xenial I see some recoverable connection drops
> (with PPA). Probably a different issue.

With regards to xenial I jumped to conclusion to quick. The drops in connectivity were these easily recoverable ones, so I've looked at the generated assembly, and I don't see the extra load that is the cause of trouble. I would still prefer to have this fixed, because the compiler is free to generate broken code, it just does not in this particular case, but it is up to you. Sorry for the noise.