From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cree Subject: Re: Alpha hardware for printk tests? Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 21:25:26 +1200 Message-ID: <20200513092526.GD2743@tower> References: <87tv0lgqut.fsf@vostro.fn.ogness.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tv0lgqut.fsf@vostro.fn.ogness.net> Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Ogness Cc: Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:39:06PM +0200, John Ogness wrote: > I have posted[0] a new lockless printk ringbuffer implementation. The > ringbuffer has been tested heavily on x86_64 and arm64 SMP > systems. However, I would also like to test it on an SMP Alpha > system. Since the main purpose of the test is to verify the memory > barriers, the tests need to run on real hardware. > > The new ringbuffer (with test routine) can also be built as a kernel > module and does not require any kernel patching. It should work on any > Linux kernel 4.20 or higher. > > Is there anyone with access to SMP Alpha hardware that would be willing > to run the tests for me? Or can someone tell me where I might find such > a candidate? Thanks! I run the two Alpha ES45's building for Debian-Ports. I can run the tests on one of them if you provide me with instructions. Cheers, Michael.