[LTP] LTP Release

Jan Stancek
2019-09-26T08:54:13Z

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

This appears to be known, and some tools like perf started auto-bumping limit:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/17/714

I'd prefer LTP does that too, we can always revert later when it's
fixed/changed on kernel side.

>
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>