From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com (e37.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.158]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3r9Y305wH3zDq80 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 00:14:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost by e37.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 19 May 2016 08:14:01 -0600 Received: from b01cxnp22033.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01cxnp22033.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.198.23]) by d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D29F19D804C for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 08:13:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by b01cxnp22033.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u4JEDvnJ31522938 for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 14:13:57 GMT Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u4JEDtgS027632 for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 10:13:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 07:14:01 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Josh Triplett Cc: Boqun Feng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Steven Rostedt , Mathieu Desnoyers , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] rcutorture: Several fixes to run selftest scripts on PPC Message-ID: <20160519141401.GO3528@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1463629344-20471-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> <20160519042516.GA19073@x> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20160519042516.GA19073@x> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 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