[LTP] LTP Release

Cyril Hrubis
2019-09-26T08:33:46Z

Hi!
> > I did a few testruns and so far it looks good.
> >
> > I've send one patch for acct02, which is mostly cosmetic, that I would
> > like to get merged.
> >
> > I would still consider merging the eBPF regression test, does anybody
> > have a strong opinion on this?
> >
> > Apart from this preadv203 sometimes fails to trigger EAGAIN on virtual
> > machines, but I doubt we can fix this before the release, I will try to
> > do so later on.
> >
> > The rest seems to be good, i.e. failures does not seem to be bugs in
> > tests.
> >
> > What is the status from rest of you? Is there anything that should be
> > considered for the release? Is something failing unexpectedly?
>
> I'm thinking if we should patch BPF tests to increase max lock memory
> to +1MB. On Fedora30 default limit is '64', and I found couple
> systems which by default come very close to that limit right after boot.
> So even one iteration of BPF tests will hit a failure.

I've seen them fail on ppc64le, because of 64k pages as well. Maybe we
shouldn't workaround the failure but rather print a TINFO message that
the limit is too low and the test is likely to fail. Then I will write
the email to kernel developers once the release is done and we will do
something about them later on.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz