From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_EF,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from sourceware.org (server1.sourceware.org [209.132.180.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E132A1F453 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:51:12 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=CnMgob1CtOjYSZWn KB7EkE4Ljegpo8iFtxNftKaKcsZxpKwv8oAp7ZrZDQPUCOpYKQ3zf4A8C2nj1WKN kdfyQzyTIjMdNkGUE/SIEPWwlRVjeMicRph/ktzMf+8bKXuTag4IH8s9xuJla+rb DE0q+StD/eQ+S9OoXZiTa8fLBu4= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=eLop84OoYaIPzVC1atuVhB N4fb8=; b=N3c2hVlXmP0h8nERjaEk+iaVUIADTGjPeZStTIOVWoxLKtZyNt49rw kMxjFtLuCSVXzfvsisbGiW5L+mqBJ3WUNH1mN68vY5OfFS4gcBVf0Lpkpkkz13nU ytvv2Ks6FV91ScyzSjICIiXdHgIZH3rBncVH4BS6qWvfMg/jt2shs= Received: (qmail 120176 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2019 16:51:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 120156 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2019 16:51:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-HELO: mail-qt1-f196.google.com Subject: Re: misc/check-installed-headers-c failing due to upstream kernel change To: Ben Hutchings , Vineet Gupta , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Cc: Feng Tang , Steven Rostedt , Andrew Morton References: <4db851ae-9bb2-2159-96bf-c4b34b505bd9@synopsys.com> <1548259069.3229.308.camel@codethink.co.uk> From: Carlos O'Donell Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <26167c76-7d83-40e9-49d3-1c38b6ae3f8a@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:51:03 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1548259069.3229.308.camel@codethink.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/23/19 10:57 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2019-01-21 at 14:56 -0800, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems a recent upstream kernel change (went in 5.0-rcX) 81c9d43f9487 >> ("kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl") trips one of the glibc tests. >> >> FAIL: misc/check-installed-headers-c >> >>> :: sys/sysctl.h >>> :::: >>> *** Obsolete types detected: >>> ~/install/compilers/arc-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/include/linux /sysctl.h: >>> KERN_PANIC_PRINT=78, /* ulong: bitmask to print system info on panic */ >> >> It doesn't seem to like ulong (inside a comment). I don't have enough foo to fix >> it, but wanted to bring it to notice anyways. > > This additions looks like a mistake, anyway - Linux's binary sysctl > interface is only there for ancient compatibility and no new sysctls > should be added to this enumeration. Just to be clear, this glibc test failure is a false positive [1], and we're working to correct this [2]. However, if this is also not needed on the kernel side, then that's also OK with us :-) -- Cheers, Carlos. [1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-01/msg00413.html [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-01/msg00513.html