From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] rcutorture: Several fixes to run selftest scripts on PPC
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 07:14:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160519141401.GO3528@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160519042516.GA19073@x>
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:25:17PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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 <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Thank you both! I have queued all four for further review and for
testing.
> 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.
Agreed, it should work better now than it did before!
Thanx, Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-19 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-19 3:42 [PATCH 0/4] rcutorture: Several fixes to run selftest scripts on PPC Boqun Feng
2016-05-19 3:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] rcutorture/doc: Add a new way to create initrd using dracut Boqun Feng
2016-05-19 3:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] rcutorture: Use vmlinux as the fallback kernel image Boqun Feng
2016-05-19 3:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option Boqun Feng
2016-05-19 4:23 ` Josh Triplett
2016-05-19 14:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-19 15:40 ` Josh Triplett
2016-05-19 16:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-19 19:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-19 20:24 ` Josh Triplett
2016-05-23 21:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-19 3:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] rcutorture: Don't specify the cpu type of QEMU on PPC Boqun Feng
2016-05-19 4:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] rcutorture: Several fixes to run selftest scripts " Josh Triplett
2016-05-19 14:14 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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