Monday Patch Queue Review update (2024-01-15)

Monday Patch Queue Review update (2024-01-15)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2024-01-15 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 458 patches.
 * Carlos's SLI at 255 days average patch age in queue and 117996 accumulated patch days.
 * Leading into glibc 2.39 release on February 1st.
 * 17 days until release.
 * Release blockers
   * Revert to original qsort implementation and apply subsequent mergesort changes with heapsort as fallback.
    * Florian: I acked Adhemerval's patch.
    * Adhemerval: Sending a new version with Florian's suggested changes.
    * Noted that Release Manager is out this week so the qsort changes will be pushed this week.
 * Desirable for the release
  * Support PLT Rewrite.
   * HJ: v2 is sent for review.
   * Carlos: Will review after the call.
  * Carlos: I reviewed the ffsll changes and approved the small Intel change for 2.39 but broader change for 2.40.
 * List of issues: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/2030348.PIDvDuAF1L@pinacolada/
  * Reviewed list of issues and progress. Those that needed to be committed are now in the tree.
 * Szabolcs: What about the TLS issues Florian raised?
  * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/8734v1ieke.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com/
  * Interposed malloc didn't break before and was a happy accident.
 * Future of PLT rewrites?
  * Adhemerval: What is the future of this feature?
  * HJ: IMO as long as JITs are supported on Linux then this isn't an issue.
 * Szabolcs: Review for NEWS entry
  * https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20240112164245.467067-1-szabolcs.nagy@arm.com/
  * Carlos: I'll review the news entry. Thanks.

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Cheers,
Carlos.