Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

[Andy Whitcroft]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm2/
>>>
>>>
>>> - Added the IOAT tree as git-ioat.patch (Chris Leech)
>>>
>>> - I worked out the git magic to make the wireless tree work
>>>   (git-wireless.patch).  Hopefully it will be in -mm more often now.
>>
>> I think the IO & fsx problems have got better, but this one is still
>> broken, at least.
>>
>> See end of fsx runlog here:
>>
>> http://test.kernel.org/abat/57486/debug/test.log.1
>>
>> which looks like this:
>>
>> Total Test PASSED: 79
>> Total Test FAILED: 3
>>   139 ./fsx-linux -N 10000 -o 8192 -A -l 500000 -r 1024 -t 2048 -w
>> 2048 -Z -R -W test/junkfile
>>   139 ./fsx-linux -N 10000 -o 128000 -r 2048 -w 4096 -Z -R -W
>> test/junkfile
>>   139 ./fsx-linux -N 10000 -o 8192 -A -l 500000 -r 1024 -t 2048 -w
>> 1024 -Z -R -W test/junkfile
>> Failed rc=1
>> 10/20/06-02:41:55 command complete: (1) rc=1 (TEST FAIL)
> 
> On further examination ... and rather more worryingly, this started
> between 2.6.18 and 2.6.18.1. I don't see any reiserfs patches in
> there, and possibly it's a machine config change? But rather worrying.
> 
> Where do the changelogs for the stable release kernels sit again?

Ok, as has been said there are changes in the tests which make error
detection better, which means we cannot be sure this _is_ new.  The
logical way to eliminate that is to rerun the 2.6.18 test again to see
if it gains the problem.

I'll queue one up.

-apw
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