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From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
To: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Chris Smart <chris@distroguy.com>,
	Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jack Miller <jack@codezen.org>,
	Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 13/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TM SPR registers
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:33:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160919023338.GA3797@simonLocalRHEL7.x64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473829452.2554.19.camel@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 03:04:12PM +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 15:33 +0800, wei.guo.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > This patch adds ptrace interface test for TM SPR registers. This
> > also adds ptrace interface based helper functions related to TM
> > SPR registers access.
> > 
> 
> I'm seeing this one fail a lot, it does occasionally succeed but fails
> a lot on my test setup.
> 
> I use qemu on a power8 for most of my testing:
> qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm -machine pseries,accel=kvm,usb=off -m
> 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=2 -nographic
> -vga none
Hi Cyril,

Sorry for the late response. I am just back from a vacation.
Strangely the case always succeed in my machine. I will try to 
reproduce it with your configuration.

> > +	if ((regs->tm_texasr != TM_SCHED) && (regs->tm_texasr !=
> > TM_KVM_SCHED))
> > +		return TEST_FAIL;
> 
> The above condition fails, should this test try again if this condition
> is true, rather than fail?
If you have the value of "regs->tm_texasr" in hand, please let
me know.

Thanks for the elaborated comment in other mails and I will 
work on that.

BR,
- Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-12  7:33 [PATCH v14 00/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for ppc registers wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 01/15] selftests/powerpc: Add more SPR numbers, TM & VMX instructions to 'reg.h' wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  4:48   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 02/15] selftests/powerpc: Use the new SPRN_DSCR_PRIV definiton wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 03/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for EBB wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 04/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  4:50   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 05/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers in TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  4:51   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 06/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for GPR/FPR registers in suspended TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 07/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR registers wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  4:53   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 08/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR in TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 09/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TAR, PPR, DSCR in suspended TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 10/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 11/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers in TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 12/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers in suspended TM wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 13/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TM SPR registers wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  5:04   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-19  2:33     ` Simon Guo [this message]
2016-09-30  2:17     ` Simon Guo
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 14/15] selftests/powerpc: Add .gitignore file for ptrace executables wei.guo.simon
2016-09-12  7:33 ` [PATCH v14 15/15] selftests/powerpc: Fix a build issue wei.guo.simon
2016-09-14  4:55   ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-13  5:49 ` [PATCH v14 00/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for ppc registers Cyril Bur
2016-09-12 17:01   ` Simon Guo
2016-09-14  4:09     ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-14  7:06       ` Michael Ellerman

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