Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Fix inactive SVE and SSVE regsets

Mark Brown <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 13:15:25 +0100

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On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 10:27:18PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > As noted in the changelog applying patch 1 as a fix and this only for
> > -next blows up the fp-ptrace test rather impressively in any
> > configuration which can generate headers only reports:

> >    https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/3075737#L3231

> > for the release.  Both patches really do need to go together.

> By "blows up" you mean the test fails, right? That's the same behaviour
> if anybody runs the test on a kernel without the fix. Both patches are
> merged in for-next/core.

Right, the test starts reporting 96 fails which doesn't look great in a
dashboard.  I'd misread the original branch as being merged as a fix but
I see it's not been merged into the fixes branch, sorry for the
confusion.

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