Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-30 Thread CAI Qian
Followed the differences found by Qian and verified none of them (did not verify the ppc suspicious one) has any regression in GDB testsuite. I did not reproduce the original possible regression seen on ppc64 RHEL6 systems. The kernel was build directly from roland's git tree with and without

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-29 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:30:37 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: Please point at some built or easily buildable kernel .rpm first. http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1825649/ OK, taken for reverification. Followed the differences found by Qian and verified none of them (did

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-29 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:39:59 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: Followed the differences found by Qian and verified none of them (did not verify the ppc suspicious one) has any regression in GDB testsuite. Forgot the log FYI. Regards, Jan -result-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64/gdb

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-27 Thread Veaceslav Falico
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:17:15PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: That's certainly good to hear. If you are pretty confident about that, then I am quite happy to consider nonregression on all of ptrace-tests the sole gating test for kernel changes. We just don't want to wind up having other

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-27 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:11:09 +0100, Veaceslav Falico wrote: -FAIL: gdb.base/foll-fork.exp: unpatch child, unpatched parent breakpoints from child (timeout) +PASS: gdb.base/foll-fork.exp: unpatch child, unpatched parent breakpoints from child -PASS: gdb.base/foll-fork.exp: set follow parent,

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-27 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 11/27, Veaceslav Falico wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:17:15PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: That's certainly good to hear. If you are pretty confident about that, then I am quite happy to consider nonregression on all of ptrace-tests the sole gating test for kernel changes. We

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-27 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:34:05 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Jan, if you see something particular which needs more attention or should be fixed, please let me know. I'll try to investigate then. I am still not finished with the verifications yesterday but so far no kernel behavior change has been

utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-25 Thread Oleg Nesterov
First of all, thanks Ananth and Cai for help! Jan, I need your help ;) looking at different reports I can't understand how to interpret them. To the point, I do not understand if the overall results are good or bad. The first question, are these tests supposed to be stable? For example,

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-25 Thread Roland McGrath
In general everything where is a word thread has unstable results and nonstop tests are also a bit unstable. So where exactly is the problem in these cases? Are the tests overly timing-sensitive where there is no actual behavior bug? Or is gdb overly timing-sensitive where there is no actual

Re: utrace-ptrace gdb testsuite tesults

2009-11-25 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:17:15 +0100, Roland McGrath wrote: In general everything where is a word thread has unstable results and nonstop tests are also a bit unstable. So where exactly is the problem in these cases? Are the tests overly timing-sensitive where there is no actual behavior