[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.2

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 10:44 PM
> To: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Cc: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>; Yigit, Ferruh
> <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>;
> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.2
> 
> David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:42 AM Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >> 3cd7290c16  David Marchand   ci: catch coredumps
> >
> > I can provide the backport for this.
> >
> > But instead:
> >
> > Since Travis is almost unusable, 20.11 stable maintainers won't be
> > able to run non regression tests.
> > I would recommend backporting GHA support in 20.11.
> 
> +1
> 
> > Another thing is that the 20.11 does not have ABI checks enabled.
> > At the moment, backports are easy and won't break ABI, but later, once
> > v21.11 is out, we must be careful not to backport anything breaking
> > ABI.
> >
> >
> > I did the test, cherry-picking needed patches for the suggestions above.
> >
> > 87009585e2 - ci: hook to GitHub Actions (5 months ago) <David
> > Marchand> 443267090e - ci: enable v21 ABI checks (5 months ago) <David
> > Marchand> 9d620630ea - ci: fix package installation in GitHub Actions
> > (5 months
> > ago) <David Marchand>
> > 1e90d1b67b - ci: ignore APT update failure in GitHub Actions (3 months
> > ago) <David Marchand>
> > 3cd7290c16 - ci: catch coredumps (10 weeks ago) <David Marchand>
> > aa9cb78f66 - doc: fix sphinx rtd theme import in GHA (6 weeks ago)
> > <David Marchand>
> >
> > https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/actions/runs/831111482
> >
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> LGTM

Cherry-picked to 20.11 branch, CI built successfully, thanks!
https://github.com/steevenlee/dpdk/actions