From: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>,
Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Steve Best <sbest@redhat.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 23:05:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <683906006.1314495.1365476711254.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130403144114.GB13668@thunk.org>
Hello Ted,
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> To: "Eric Whitney" <enwlinux@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Dmitry Monakhov" <dmonakhov@openvz.org>, "Christian Kujau" <lists@nerdbynature.de>, "CAI Qian"
> <caiqian@redhat.com>, "LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-s390" <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>, "Steve Best"
> <sbest@redhat.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:41:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out
>
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:34:06AM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> >
> > The TI OMAP4 processor on my Pandaboard test system is little endian.
>
> Ah... so basically, we need to find a test platform which allows us to
> boot arbitrary kernels and allows us to have root access (which means
> it's unlikely we'll be able to do this via remote access) and which
> doesn't have exotic power requirements (which as far as I know rules
> out pSeries and zSeries systems....)
>
> It would also be nice if we could run tests in finite time, which
> probably rules out the Hercules emulator (it runs at one-tenth zSeries
> processor speeds, which doesn't win speed competitions by default, and
> I suspect their storage speeds are even worse).
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions? Or anyone willing to help us run
> ext4 regression tests on the ext4 dev tree, so we can find these
> problems before we merge into mainline?
I can help run xfstests for ext4 dev tree on x64, Power7, Z10 and
KVM platforms with back-storage like SAN/multipath, iSCSI and FCoE.
I plan to run this weekly and setup a wiki page to update the testing
status by every Friday.
CAI Qian
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ted
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-09 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <863434221.7624846.1364452822093.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
2013-03-28 6:40 ` s390x: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1591! CAI Qian
2013-03-28 9:44 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-28 12:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-28 14:56 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-03-29 8:53 ` CAI Qian
2013-03-29 10:08 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-03-29 9:27 ` CAI Qian
2013-04-01 6:07 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-01 6:30 ` CAI Qian
2013-04-01 6:56 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-02 4:06 ` bisected! (WAS Re: s390x: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1591!) CAI Qian
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304012249440.5874@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-02 9:47 ` s390x: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1591! (powerpc too!) Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-02 12:33 ` Zheng Liu
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304021202100.13746@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-02 19:49 ` Dmitry Monakhov
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304020955280.13746@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-02 17:19 ` Dmitry Monakhov
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304021430480.13746@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-02 22:05 ` Dmitry Monakhov
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304021611020.13746@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-03 8:52 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-03 9:53 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-03 10:22 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-03 12:20 ` [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 12:29 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-03 14:34 ` Eric Whitney
2013-04-03 14:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-03 15:23 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-04-09 3:05 ` CAI Qian [this message]
2013-04-20 15:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-22 3:40 ` CAI Qian
2013-04-22 10:04 ` Christian Borntraeger
2013-04-03 11:02 ` s390x: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1591! (powerpc too!) Dmitry Monakhov
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1304030935230.13746@trent.utfs.org>
2013-04-03 16:50 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-03 16:52 ` Zheng Liu
2013-04-02 10:01 ` bisected! (WAS Re: s390x: kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1591!) Dmitry Monakhov
[not found] ` <876098945.1097253.1364961617725.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
2013-04-03 7:14 ` CAI Qian
2013-04-03 7:51 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2013-04-03 8:09 ` Lukáš Czerner
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