From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
To: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
Cc: dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] test: correct file permissions
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 21:45:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <718c7c8e-cdee-ca08-ba39-8772d1aeb164@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aV3DcDB9SGJ0acqD@oracle.com>
On 1/6/26 21:22, Kris Van Hees wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 08:20:10PM -0500, Eugene Loh wrote:
>> On 1/6/26 00:54, Kris Van Hees wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 11:50:53PM -0500, Eugene Loh wrote:
>>>> The patch otherwise reads right to me. The tests, however, are not happy.
>>>> The following tests fail intermittently:
>>>>
>>>> test/demo/script/interp.d
>>>> test/demo/script/tracewrite.d
>>>> test/unittest/lockstat/tst.lockstat-summary.d
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.arg0.d
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.basic.d
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.trace.d
>>>>
>>>> These tests fail consistently:
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.assign.d
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.pgid.d
>>>> test/unittest/scripting/tst.pid.d
>>>> The problem for these tests is
>>>> -#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qs
>>>> +#!dtrace -qs
>>>> Since these files used to be invoked as scripts, the -q was ignored. The .r
>>>> files relied on that. So the interpreter files should drop the -q. That
>>>> does not fix them entirely; it simply makes their failures intermittent.
>>> Yes, I caught (I think) all of the opposite cases where I added a pragma to
>>> ensure that the -q behaviour was retained, but I don't think I considered the
>>> case where the script was not invoked using the #! and that therefore the -q
>>> was not actually effective.
>>>
>>>> I'll look more at the intermittent failures, but there may be more than one
>>>> thing going on there. (lockstat-summary looks different)
>>> Thanks.
>> The intermittent failures were weird, but that lockstat-summary.d should
>> also fail is just plain insane. The problem actually appears to be with a
>> different patch. So, I'm withdrawing the "intermittent failure" complaint
>> about this patch, which should be ready for a final version. Elsewhere,
>> I'll report on what's really going on.
> Yes, I believe it is due to:
> [3/4] bpf: allocate the buffers BPF map to fit highest CPU id
>
> I must have introduced a bug in that patch.
Right. And I reviewed it. We replace num_online_cpus with max_cpuid.
That should be max_cpuid+1. Is it too late to rework that patch? If
so, I can supply a patch to amend it. (Anyhow, events on the highest
cpuid are missed.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-07 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-19 0:51 [PATCH v2 2/4] test: correct file permissions Kris Van Hees
2026-01-06 4:50 ` [DTrace-devel] " Eugene Loh
2026-01-06 5:54 ` Kris Van Hees
2026-01-07 1:20 ` Eugene Loh
2026-01-07 2:22 ` Kris Van Hees
2026-01-07 2:45 ` Eugene Loh [this message]
2026-01-07 2:51 ` Kris Van Hees
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