On Wed, 13 May 2009, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:35:53AM +0100, Eric B. Munson wrote: > > The readahead, madvise, and the fadvise tests can all hang the running > > machine > > if the kernel bug they are testing is present. This patch wraps these tests > > so that they fail without running if the kernel version is less than > > 2.6.30. > > Is there a way to force the tests to run for real? There really needs > to be this so you can test (for example) a distro kernel with > backported patches for the bugs in question.
It is possible to run the test by hand, this just has it skip them when run through run_tests.py. > > Although it's further proliferating the number of test results, I'd > also suggest making this say something other than just FAIL, as a hint > that the tests aren't actually running, just assuming a result from > the kernel version. "FAIL (assumed)" maybe? > I will work up a patch that adds this. -- Eric B Munson IBM Linux Technology Center ebmun...@us.ibm.com
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