On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:41 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:30:26PM -0600, Steve Fox wrote:
> > I found that on SLES10 PPC that the stack_grow_into_huge test would not
> > stop the child process, even with the barrier hack. The below patch
> > changes the test so that if the child doesn't die within 5 seconds, we
> > kill it and fail the test. It still returns immediately if the child is
> > terminated as expected with a proper kernel.
> 
> Better to have a test in the child, I think, that means it only
> attempts to grow the stack so far than to use a timer.

That would make it dependent on architecture and bitness which seems
rather fragile to me.

-- 

Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center


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