On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:23:22 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > The first question, are these tests supposed to be "stable"?
No. There is no written down set of testcases with unstable results. > can explain this difference if results are stable. they are not. > I am asking you to tell me which failures are "important". In general everything where is a word "thread" has unstable results and "nonstop" tests are also a bit unstable. > Then I'll try to fix them (most probably I will ask a lot of stupid > questions before I will be able to do this ;). There are IMO/hopefully very few cases tested by the gdb testsuite and still not covered by the ptrace-testsuite, I even do not much expect we will see again a new utrace regression caught by the gdb testsuite && uncaught by the ptrace-testsuite. > IOW. Only you and Roland can say whether utrace-ptrace is ready > for use from gdb-testsuite's pov. Please tell me which failures > should be fixed to conclude that utrace-ptrace "works". Please point at some built or easily buildable kernel .rpm first. Regards, Jan
