On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:41:15AM +0100, Eric B. Munson wrote: > 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.
Hrm, ok. I'd still suggest a "run_tests.py -f" or something to make
it run all the tests.
> > 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.
Excellent. Btw, I'm probably going to be doing some more hugepage
work later this year (kernel side, port to new hardware), so at some
point I should sync up with you and Mel on the way things are done
these days in libhugetlbfs - it seems to have changed a bit since I
was last active.
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