Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] strace: 6.17 -> 6.18

[Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>]

Hi Alexander,

On 12/17/25 16:41, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 03:58, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
>>>> The 6.17 has 27 failed test cases, and 6.18 only has 2 failed ones:
>>>> FAIL: bpf.gen.test
>>>> FAIL: bpf-v.gen.test
>>>
>>> This needs a bit more context. If the old version had failures, and
>>> the new version still has failures, why aren't they seen in testing?
>>
>> They are ptest failures, and there is no specific test for it, so we don't see
>> the failures. I did look into the failures, but didn't know how to fix that, the
>> newer version has less failures than the older one, so I sent the upgrade patch.
> 
> But we do run strace ptests, and they do not fail, e.g. with latest
> nightly master:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/2761/steps/14/logs/stdio
> 
> Does bitbake -c testimage core-image-ptest-strace fail for you? How
> did you set up and ran the tests to see them fail?

You didn't see the failure is because core-image-ptest has PTEST_EXPECT_FAILURE
as reported by Qi:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/227411

I can see the failure after applied Qi's patches. Or we can manually see the
failures via:
# pest-runner strace

// Robert

> 
> Alex