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Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:13:50 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...l.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, vatsa@...ibm.com, torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shaohua.li@...el.com, hotplug_sig@...l.org, lhcs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Status on CPU hotplug issues Hi! > > > > > How well tested is this? From my reading, this will cause > > > > > enable_nonboot_cpus() to panic. Is that intended? > > > > > > > > I wanted to give you an update on results of cpu testing I've done on > > > > recent kernels and several architectures. Since -rc1 is out, I wanted > > > > to give added visibility to the few issues that remain. > > > > > > > > The full results are available here: > > > > > > > > http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/hotplug_report.html > > > > > > > > This is actually a report for cpu hotplug tests generated hourly, > > > > however we run it against all of the kernel -git snapshots posted to > > > > kernel.org. Whereever you see a blank square, it indicates the kernel > > > > either failed to build or boot. > > > > So... patch-2.6.18-git4 failed to boot on all architectures? I'm > > seeing very little green fields there... actually I only see two green > > fields in whole table. > > No, it failed to build due to a patching issue that has since been fixed > (I can rerun those older runs if there is interest.) Reruning few of them and deleting rest from table would be nice. > > > iirc Pavel did some testing a month or two ago and was seeing userspace > > > misbehaviour? > > > > Pavel did some testing (like two threads trying to plug/unplug cpus at > > the same time), and seen machines dying real fast; but that was fixed, > > IIRC, and I did not really torture it after that. > > If this test is available, I could include it in my test runs if you > think it would be worth tracking. Is shell script acceptable form of a test? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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