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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [v2 4/4] valgrind: disable 256 ptests for aarch64
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:32:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190911123258.GA27961@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190910214136.22971-4-Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 05:41:36PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On qemuarm64 systems, about half of the valgrind tests fail and
> often result in defunct processes, eg:
>    root       819   818 25 00:12 pts/0    00:01:52 /usr/bin/valgrind --command-line-only=yes --memcheck:leak-check=no --tool=memcheck -q --track-origins=
>    root       861   420  0 00:13 pts/0    00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
> Eventually these processes use so much memory that the
> out of memory killer runs.
> 
> Hide the tests that fail as a horrid work-around until the
> root cause has been resolved since this at least allows the
> ptest run to complete.
>...

I can reproduce this on hardware, and I have the bad feeling that noone
will work on resolving the root cause if this is workarounded in ptest.

IMHO this should instead be listed as M3 blocker,
similar to "strace ptest timeout".

cu
Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10 21:41 [v2 1/4] valgrind: enable ~500 more ptests Randy MacLeod
2019-09-10 21:41 ` [v2 2/4] valgrind: make a few more ptests pass Randy MacLeod
2019-09-10 21:41 ` [v2 3/4] valgrind: ptest improvements to run-ptest and more Randy MacLeod
2019-09-10 21:41 ` [v2 4/4] valgrind: disable 256 ptests for aarch64 Randy MacLeod
2019-09-11 12:32   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2019-09-11 13:38     ` Randy MacLeod
2019-09-11 14:00       ` Adrian Bunk
2019-09-11 18:01         ` Randy MacLeod
2019-09-12  8:13           ` Adrian Bunk

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