B1;2802;0cOn Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote: > FWIW, testing with ltp, I noticed a new failure in logs. It turns out > to be intermittent, but the testcase mostly fails.
You forgot to cc the LTP folks ... > rtbox:~ # > /usr/local/ltp/conformance/interfaces/sigtimedwait/sigtimedwait_1-1.run-test > Test FAILED: sigtimedwait() did not return in the required time > time_elapsed: 1.197057 > ...come on, you can do it... > rtbox:~ # > /usr/local/ltp/conformance/interfaces/sigtimedwait/sigtimedwait_1-1.run-test > Test PASSED > > #define ERRORMARGIN 0.1 > ... > if ((time_elapsed > SIGTIMEDWAITSEC + ERRORMARGIN) > || (time_elapsed < SIGTIMEDWAITSEC - ERRORMARGIN)) { > printf("Test FAILED: sigtimedwait() did not return in " > "the required time\n"); > printf("time_elapsed: %lf\n", time_elapsed); > return PTS_FAIL; > } > > Looks hohum to me, but gripe did arrive with patch set, so you get a note. hohum is a euphemism. That's completely bogus. The only guarantee a syscall with timers has is: timer does not fire early. Thanks, tglx