I also counted 19 failed tests (that we know of).  I don't have a solid
feeling whether these are having the same root cause or could be
multiple underlying issues.  It would not surprise me, for example, if
there are ppc64el-specific issues in valgrind itself, in addition to
separate and unrelated issues in pmdk.  Also, if there is one specific
op code, for example, that causes all these failures, I have not had
luck in pinpointing it and it feels like it might require at least a
deep dive or even manual debugging on a ppc64el host.  I also don't
think it is wise to assume Debian or upstream is prepared and ready to
do that at the moment.

Given the uncertainty + short timeframe, after a discussion the server
team determined best approach would be to bypass the tests on ppc64el,
to get a successful build, that will hopefully migrate and allow its
rdepends to resolve.

We can't be certain whether these tests represent actual faults that
will affect users, or are false positives or testsuite-specific issues
that won't affect them.  Just in case it's the former, this should be
identified as a known issue in the release notes, a priority given to
ascertain which is the case, and then the release notes updated and
followup SRU bugs filed accordingly.

For now, we'll use this bug report for tracking purposes of the
investigation of the test failures generally, but may wish to divide
this into separate bug reports for more specific issues and use this as
an umbrella bug report.  I'll prioritize this as a "server-todo" bug for
this work.


** Tags added: server-todo

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