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| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/vcs/linux.go | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/vcs/linux.go b/pkg/vcs/linux.go index 11142b6e8..1ecad347d 100644 --- a/pkg/vcs/linux.go +++ b/pkg/vcs/linux.go @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func (ctx *linux) PreviousReleaseTags(commit string) ([]string, error) { return nil, err } for i, tag := range tags { - if tag == "v4.0" { + if tag == "v4.5" { // Initially we tried to stop at 3.8 because: // v3.8 does not work with modern perl, and as we go further in history // make stops to work, then binutils, glibc, etc. So we stop at v3.8. @@ -48,8 +48,16 @@ func (ctx *linux) PreviousReleaseTags(commit string) ([]string, error) { // That was fixed by 99124e4db5b7b70daeaaf1d88a6a8078a0004c6e, // and it can be cherry-picked into 3.14..4.0 but it conflicts for 3.13 and older. // - // But starting from 4.0 our user-space binaries start crashing with assorted errors - // which suggests process memory corruption by kernel. So for now we stop at 4.1. + // But starting from 4.0 our user-space binaries start crashing with + // assorted errors which suggests process memory corruption by kernel. + // + // We used to use 4.1 as the oldest tested release (it works in general). + // However, there is correlation between how far back we go and probability + // of getting correct result (see #1532). So we now stop at 4.6. + // 4.6 is somewhat arbitrary, we've seen lots of wrong results in 4.5..4.6 range, + // but there is definitive reason for 4.6. Most likely later we want to bump it + // even more (as new releases are produced). Next good candidate may be 4.11 + // because then we won't need gcc 5.5. tags = tags[:i] break } |