linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/197] 6.9.9-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <Zo7C8W97URxXYXd-@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:20:49 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
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	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/197] 6.9.9-rc1 review

On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 02:04:55PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> # #  RUN           rtc.date_read_loop ...
> # # rtctest.c:95:date_read_loop:Continuously reading RTC time for 30s (with 11ms breaks after every read).
> # # rtctest.c:122:date_read_loop:Performed 2954 RTC time reads.
> # #            OK  rtc.date_read_loop

> Bisection points to "selftests/harness: Fix tests timeout and race
> condition" but this looks like a test bug, the timeout for tests is 30s
> and the test tries to run for 30s which obviously doesn't add up.
> Previously the test would pass because the bug the patch is fixing is
> that timeout had no effect.  I'm also running the test on other
> platforms without it triggering new timeouts, it's just this one
> specific platform that triggered which is a bit worrying.

> I'll send a patch for the test.

Sorry, spoke too soon on that - the test is explicitly overriding the
timeout to be longer so there's something else going on here.

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