Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-01-31)

Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-01-31)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2022-01-31 @ 0900h EST (UTC-5)

Video/Audio: https://bluejeans.com/9093064454

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

With the release upcoming we've switched to reviewing blockers and desirable changes.

 * NEW/NOBODY 312 patches.
 * Release planned for Wednesday February 2nd.
 * MIPS _r_debug issues
   * https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-January/135820.html
   * Needs fixing properly.
 * MIPS pldd support for DT_MIPS_RLD_MAP_REL
   * https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-January/135821.html
   * Needs fixing.
 * MIPS issues all in one group.
   * https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-January/135837.html
 * posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np needs review.
   * https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20220129200620.501423-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org/
   * Florian to review v2.
 * C.UTF-8 locale
   * Review Andreas Schwab's comments.
 * HJ - Close to fixing the loader bug for invalid p_align
   * Considering to backport the p_align change to older releases.
   * We should fix this in 2.35.
   * Need an additional check for invalid objects.
 * HJ - When I run the glibc testsuite on Alderlake
   * Opened bugs for those. They are test issues.
   * Use of a privileged instruction issue.
   * Processor feature detected by cpuid but is not reported by kernel.
   * 50466, 50467 patches.
 * CI/CD - tst-21269 hangs on i386
   * Discussion: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-July/128853.html
   * We should fix this.

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Cheers,
Carlos.