Re: Several tst-robust* tests time out with recent Linux kernel

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Nov 15 2023 - 03:51:25 EST


On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 01:11:20AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 21:14 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Urgh, thanks!
> >
> > Confirmed, the below cures things. Although I should probably make
> > that
> > FLAGS_SIZE_32 | FLAGS_SHARED against Linus' tree.
> >
> > Let me go do a proper patch.
>
> I saw these fail on the glibc shadow stack branch today, and I also saw
> this one failing:
> FAIL: nptl/tst-robustpi8

tip/locking/urgent (branch with the fix on) gets me:

root@ivb-ep:/usr/local/src/glibc# ./build/nptl/tst-robustpi8
running child
verifying locks
running child
verifying locks
running child
verifying locks
running child
verifying locks
running child
verifying locks
root@ivb-ep:/usr/local/src/glibc#

Which, to my untrained eye, looks like a pass to me.