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Message-ID: <20160919023338.GA3797@simonLocalRHEL7.x64>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:33:38 +0800
From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@...il.com>
To: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...il.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Chris Smart <chris@...troguy.com>,
Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@...il.com>,
Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jack Miller <jack@...ezen.org>,
Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 13/15] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for TM SPR
registers
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 03:04:12PM +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 15:33 +0800, wei.guo.simon@...il.com wrote:
> > From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > This patch adds ptrace interface test for TM SPR registers. This
> > also adds ptrace interface based helper functions related to TM
> > SPR registers access.
> >
>
> I'm seeing this one fail a lot, it does occasionally succeed but fails
> a lot on my test setup.
>
> I use qemu on a power8 for most of my testing:
> qemu-system-ppc64 --enable-kvm -machine pseries,accel=kvm,usb=off -m
> 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=2 -nographic
> -vga none
Hi Cyril,
Sorry for the late response. I am just back from a vacation.
Strangely the case always succeed in my machine. I will try to
reproduce it with your configuration.
> > + if ((regs->tm_texasr != TM_SCHED) && (regs->tm_texasr !=
> > TM_KVM_SCHED))
> > + return TEST_FAIL;
>
> The above condition fails, should this test try again if this condition
> is true, rather than fail?
If you have the value of "regs->tm_texasr" in hand, please let
me know.
Thanks for the elaborated comment in other mails and I will
work on that.
BR,
- Simon
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