From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" The reboot function when rebooting back to a good kernel has a check to make sure that a new kernel was indeed booted. But that check uses a timeout value, which when calling the monitor will still return success if the timeout is hit (no bug was found). It should return an error to let the reboot code know that a new kernel was not reached. Only the reboot code checks the return value of the monitor. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl index 085452fa045b..c518b0fb6d01 100755 --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl @@ -1450,6 +1450,12 @@ sub wait_for_monitor { } } print "** Monitor flushed **\n"; + + # if stop is defined but wasn't hit, return error + # used by reboot (which wants to see a reboot) + if (defined($stop) && !$booted) { + $bug = 1; + } return $bug; } -- 2.0.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/