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 variable to set how long to keep trying, and the > > defaults are pretty short. You should run those for long periods to > > achieve confidence that you won't hit any crashes. > > So far, no crashes with TESTTIME set to 3600 and 7200. This is on 32-bit, > 2.6.24 kernel, running as a full virtualized guest in Xen. The testing on > a physical box is slated for today.
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. Even if it would be the full utrace kernel all the crasher problems were already fixed except clone-get-signal which has unfortunately very rare reproducibility. It reproduces probably best on s390. Still it was seen even on x86_64. It is unfortunately very probably your machine just did not reproduce it. crasher testcases are left marked as `crasher' even after their fix as if you run them on arbitrary (possibly old) kernel it may surprise you by its crash. The x86_64-cs vanilla crasher does not apply to you as you run on 32-bit. Sure thanks for the verifications. Regards, Jan
