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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Viorel-C??t??lin R??pi??eanu <rapiteanu.catalin@gmail.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [LTP] min_free_kbytes incorrect results
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:03:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204140344.GA32277@rei.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548063A8.4060104@gmail.com>

Hi!
> I've been running 'min_free_kbytes' from 'runtest/mm', but everytime I'm 
> getting an incorrect value on read. I've tried this test on different 
> machines (different architectures) and with different versions of ltp, 
> but I'm getting the same error on read. I've looked at the test, but the 
> code seems fine. If anybody has any ideea why this isn't working please 
> let me know.
> 
> The following log was generated using an up-to-date Arch Linux x64 using 
> kernel: 3.17.4-1
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> min_free_kbytes    0  TINFO  :  set overcommit_memory to 2
> min_free_kbytes    0  TINFO  :  set min_free_kbytes to 67584
> min_free_kbytes    1  TBROK  :  min_free_kbytes = 6, but expect 67584

This failure comes from function set_sys_tune() from
testcases/kernel/mem/lib/mem.c

What the code does is to write to the specified file in /sys and then
reads it back to verify its content. And it looks like the number read
back is truncated so something seems to be broken.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04 13:37 [LTP] min_free_kbytes incorrect results Viorel-Cătălin Răpițeanu
2014-12-04 14:03 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
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2014-12-04 14:29 ` Cyril Hrubis

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