Re: [lkp-robot] [x86] ed3ce2a917: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:30:52AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> One possible improvement is to provide "lkp qemu" reproduce steps for
> kernel oops -- it would be way more convenient and safe to follow than
> "lkp run", since the later risks hang the physical machine.

Right, that would mean that the bug should be triggerable in qemu. Some
bugs happen on baremetal only though.

> As for the test description, the dmesg carries markers for the user
> space test start/stop points, so the robot can easily tell whether the
> oops happen during the test or before/after the test -- the latter may
> well (but not always) indicate the oops is not relevant to the testcase,
> but to the regular kernel boot/reboot/kexec process.

Right, if that is made part of the report, it would make the reports
better. Something like: "this happens when preparing our test env" or
"this happens while running this test blabla".

Thanks guys and keep up the good work!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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