From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v2 02/13] thp: ensure THP/hugetlbfs is available
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:34:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129143408.GA15160@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmjl1ad6.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Hi!
> >> The test passes even if THP is not enabled on the test kernel. This
> >> gives the false impression that THP is working as expected.
> >>
> >> The explicit check is making sure the functionality under test is is
> >> enabled in the test kernel.
> >
> > I see where that came from, but I do not think that the test name is a
> > reason to disable this stress test. However I'm not sure if there is a
> > better name for the test. I guess that we may possibly move it to the
> > cve directory.
> >
>
> So you're saying the test should run irrespective of whether THP is
> enabled or not in the kernel. I'll drop the thp01.c hunk from this patch
> then.
Exactly, it's basically test that tries to pass as large argument list
to exec() as possible, the fact that this has been broken with THP
enabled does not make it irrelevant for kernel without it.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-14 15:59 [LTP] [PATCH v2 00/13] Collection of fixes Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 01/13] Move check_hugepage() helper to mem/lib Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 02/13] thp: ensure THP/hugetlbfs is available Punit Agrawal
2017-11-27 16:20 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-27 16:59 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-29 12:44 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-29 13:29 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-29 14:34 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 03/13] hugeshmctl01: Convert to LTP synchronisation primitives Punit Agrawal
2017-11-27 16:52 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-27 17:34 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 04/13] hugeshmctl01: Fix warning about signed/unsigned comparison Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 05/13] hugeshmctl02: Fix allocation size for odd number of hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 06/13] hugeshmget02: add missing SHM_HUGETLB flag on segment creation Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 07/13] sigwaitinfo01: fix race between sending and dequeueing RT signals Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 08/13] sigwaitinfo01: catch SEGV and report success for bad_address2 testcase Punit Agrawal
2017-11-29 10:29 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-29 13:25 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-29 15:33 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 09/13] syscalls/mount03: Copy setuid_test to execute instead of 'TEST FILE' Punit Agrawal
2017-11-29 13:20 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-29 16:50 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-30 12:21 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-30 12:56 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-30 13:17 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-30 15:56 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 10/13] getdtablesize01: Handle ENFILE errno Punit Agrawal
2017-11-30 13:12 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-30 16:06 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-30 16:20 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-11-30 16:41 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2017-12-01 13:38 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-12-01 15:30 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 11/13] perf_event_open: Handle absence of PMU gracefully Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 12/13] hotplug/cpu_hotplug: Repopulate cgroup:cpusets after testing hotplug Punit Agrawal
2017-11-30 13:58 ` Cyril Hrubis
2017-12-01 16:00 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-11-14 15:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 13/13] hotplug/cpu_hotplug: Remove bashism disown from kill_pid() Punit Agrawal
2017-11-21 16:15 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 00/13] Collection of fixes Punit Agrawal
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