From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from slow1-d.mail.gandi.net (slow1-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.86]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3r9J4X3VDlzDqHc for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 14:29:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.196]) by slow1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BCF48601F for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 06:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 21:25:17 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Boqun Feng Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , Steven Rostedt , Mathieu Desnoyers , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] rcutorture: Several fixes to run selftest scripts on PPC Message-ID: <20160519042516.GA19073@x> References: <1463629344-20471-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1463629344-20471-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:42:20AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote: > I spend some time to make tools/testing/selftest/rcutorture run on PPC, > here are some documention and fixes made while I was trying. > > The scripts are able to run and get results on PPC, however please > note there are some stalls even build errors that could be found > by the tests currently. > > As I'm certainly not an expert of qemu or bash programming, there > may be something I am missing in those patches. So tests and comments > are welcome ;-) > > Regards, > Boqun > > Boqun Feng (4): > rcutorture/doc: Add a new way to create initrd using dracut > rcutorture: Use vmlinux as the fallback kernel image > rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option > rcutorture: Don't specify the cpu type of QEMU on PPC All four of these seem reasonable to me: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett I responded to the -soundhw patch, trying to track down why that option was needed in the first place, and seeking a solution that doesn't require adding to the set of target-specific options. But I don't think that investigation should block your fix.