Re: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:32:18 +0100, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Your utrace-ptrace-compat kernel is not the full utrace implementation which > > the testsuite targets, it is only its `regset' part. Therefore some (all?) > > of the crashers just do not apply to such non-full-utrace kernels. > > That

Re: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-13 Thread Roland McGrath
> Your utrace-ptrace-compat kernel is not the full utrace implementation which > the testsuite targets, it is only its `regset' part. Therefore some (all?) > of the crashers just do not apply to such non-full-utrace kernels. That is not true, unless I am misunderstanding what you are referring to

Re: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:05:59 +0100, Kris Van Hees wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:27:53PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Thanks for the testing. Note that most of the crasher tests are for > > intermittent race bugs that might take a long time to show. They look for > > TESTTIME environment

Re: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-13 Thread Kris Van Hees
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:27:53PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > Thanks for the testing. Note that most of the crasher tests are for > intermittent race bugs that might take a long time to show. They look for > TESTTIME environment variable to set how long to keep trying, and the > defaults are

Re: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-08 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks for the testing. Note that most of the crasher tests are for intermittent race bugs that might take a long time to show. They look for TESTTIME environment variable to set how long to keep trying, and the defaults are pretty short. You should run those for long periods to achieve confiden

RE: Some testing on crashers...

2008-02-08 Thread jdike
> I ran all testsuite tests (both check and xcheck) a couple of hundred > times on a Debian 4.0 32-bit instance using the utrace-ptrace-compat git > branch kernel version You might make sure utrace can boot UML. utrace has broken UML in the past. Jeff