[LTP] LTP release

Jan Stancek
2017-04-26T12:59:37Z

----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > > It's about a time we should prepare for another release, hence as
> > > usuall, lets start with pointing out any patches that should be part of
> > > it and I would like to start with pre-release testing at the end of this
> > > week. Does that sound OK to everyone?
> >
> > ioctl06 always failed on aarch64(others PASS) with upstream
> > kernel-4.11-rc[1-7]. Not sure if it is a bug or not, since i'm still
> > on debugging way. Just report here to let you know this.

I'm seeing it fail on ppc as well (64k pages), with older RHEL7 kernels:

> Looks like the value is rounded to be multiple of 128, that may be just
> intentional limitation, but we should better check with the kernel
> source or ask kernel devs.

block/ioctl.c:
case BLKRASET:
case BLKFRASET:
if(!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
bdev->bd_bdi->ra_pages = (arg * 512) / PAGE_SIZE;
return 0;

Regards,
Jan