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From: xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] syscalls/mallinfo01 test is broken
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 02:27:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <609C8EBC.80409@fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJvftrFCueG3TXPf@yuki>

Hi Cyril, Martin
> Hi!
>> the mallinfo01 test is failing on some of our test machines because it
>> makes wrong assumptions about how malloc() and free() will change the
>> number of free chunks (ordblks). I recommend we remove the test from
>> runfiles before the upcoming release and fix it later because part of
>> the test scenario needs major redesign.
>
> I've started some pre-release testruns and I've seen some failures as
> well. I guess that removing it from runtest file and fixing it after
> release sounds sane at this point.
This case fails because malloc uses fastbin blocks.
So the fix has two ways
1) disable fastbin by using mallopt(M_MXFAST, 0)
2) use another mallinfo struct info3 to get free chunks, so compare 
info3 and info2 ordblks member.

Best Regards
Yang Xu

>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-13  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12 14:17 [LTP] syscalls/mallinfo01 test is broken Martin Doucha
2021-05-12 14:01 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-05-13  2:27   ` xuyang2018.jy [this message]
2021-05-13  8:05     ` Cyril Hrubis

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