Re: [PATCH] selftests/timers/posix_timers: reimplement check_timer_distribution()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 11 2024 - 10:18:54 EST


On Thu, Apr 11 2024 at 13:44, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> Thomas says:
>>
>> The signal distribution test has a tendency to hang for a long
>> time as the signal delivery is not really evenly distributed. In
>> fact it might never be distributed across all threads ever in
>> the way it is written.
>>
>> To me even the
>>
>> This primarily tests that the kernel does not favour any one.
>
> Further to my previous mail it's also broken the arm64 selftest builds,
> they use kselftest.h with nolibc in order to test low level
> functionality mainly used by libc implementations and nolibc doesn't
> implement uname():
>
> In file included from za-fork.c:12:
> ../../kselftest.h:433:17: error: variable has incomplete type 'struct utsname'
> struct utsname info;
> ^
> ../../kselftest.h:433:9: note: forward declaration of 'struct utsname'
> struct utsname info;
> ^
> ../../kselftest.h:435:6: error: call to undeclared function 'uname'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> if (uname(&info) || sscanf(info.release, "%u.%u.", &major, &minor) != 2)
> ^
> ../../kselftest.h:435:22: error: call to undeclared function 'sscanf'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> if (uname(&info) || sscanf(info.release, "%u.%u.", &major, &minor) != 2)

Grrr. Let me stare at this.