On 15.11.2006 [10:41:19 +1100], David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:33:59PM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > On 14.11.2006 [12:21:36 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm hitting a brick wall debugging the linkshare segfaults I'm seeing.
> > > 
> > > (These logs are from my 2-way x86_64, but I'm seeing similar issues on a 
> > > G5
> > > (ppc64):
> > > 
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=2 xB.linkshare 2 (32):    PASS
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=2 xB.linkshare 2 (64):    PASS
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=1 xB.linkshare 2 (32):    FAIL    2 of 2 children exited 
> > > abnormally
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=1 xB.linkshare 2 (64):    FAIL    2 of 2 children exited 
> > > abnormally
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=2 xBDT.linkshare 2 (32):  PASS
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=2 xBDT.linkshare 2 (64):  PASS
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=1 xBDT.linkshare 2 (32):  FAIL    2 of 2 children exited 
> > > abnormally
> > > HUGETLB_SHARE=1 xBDT.linkshare 2 (64):  FAIL    2 of 2 children exited 
> > > abnormally
> > > 
> > > With all 4 failures being segmentation faults we caught.
> > 
> > /me hangs head in shame.
> > 
> > This is all probably just a stupid programming error on my part. I'll
> > have a fix, I think, once I return from class.
> 
> Btw, some of the existing testcases (e.g. alloc-instantiate-race) use
> strsignal() and WTERMSIG() to give a more informative message when a
> child is killed by a signal.  It's probably a good idea to use that
> here too, so you can see they died with a SEGV at first glance.

Yes, this is done with a verbose test run. If I were to do it via a FAIL
statement, we'd get 3 FAIL lines for every failing case. I suppose I
could add a FAIL_CONT() for this...

Thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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