[Bug 2002429] Please test proposed package

[Steve Langasek]

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gcc-11-cross-ports into jammy-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-11-cross-ports/8ubuntu1.2 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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Title:
  Patch needs to be removed ("debian/patches/gcc-ibmz-plt-revert.diff:
  Revert PLT changes from the gcc-11 branch")

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  New
Status in gcc-11 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gcc-11-cross package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gcc-11-cross-ports package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gcc-11 source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in gcc-11-cross source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in gcc-11-cross-ports source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in gcc-11 source package in Kinetic:
  New
Status in gcc-11 source package in Lunar:
  Fix Released
Status in gcc-11 package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

   * Bug #1954676 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1954676) was opened
  because of kernel soft lockup issues with Jammy 5.15. A temporary
  patch to gcc-11 was identified and released under debian/patches/gcc-
  ibmz-plt-revert.diff, which reverted gcc commit 0990d93 ("IBM Z: Use
  @PLT symbols for local functions in 64-bit mode"). An eventual fix to
  the kernel lockup was released under the upstream Linux kernel, commit
  f3b7e73b2c66.

   * To this end, the debian/patches/gcc-ibmz-plt-revert.diff patch
  should be removed from gcc-11 as it presents issues with object file
  symbols. An attempt at this is in my PPA -
  https://launchpad.net/~john-cabaj/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-11). This
  allowed me to get past my issues with the object file symbols.

  [ Test Plan ]

   * use kpatch-build testcases to build and load a livepatch on s390x
  kernel built with gcc-11

   * it should be successful

  [ Where problems could occur ]

   * Whilst the kernel issues was worked-around by reverting compiler
  changes, the actual issue was in the kernel code; which has since been
  fixed. In ubuntu the kernel has been fixed since Ubuntu-5.15.0-20.20

  [ Other Info ]
   
   * A bit sad that this was not detected earlier, and compiler fixed up earlier.

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