[LTP] LTP Release

Jan Stancek jstancek@redhat.com
Thu Sep 26 11:52:22 CEST 2019


----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > > > I'm thinking if we should patch BPF tests to increase max lock memory
> > > > to +1MB. On Fedora30 default limit is '64', and I found couple
> > > > systems which by default come very close to that limit right after
> > > > boot.
> > > > So even one iteration of BPF tests will hit a failure.
> > > 
> > > I've seen them fail on ppc64le, because of 64k pages as well. Maybe we
> > > shouldn't workaround the failure but rather print a TINFO message that
> > > the limit is too low and the test is likely to fail. Then I will write
> > > the email to kernel developers once the release is done and we will do
> > > something about them later on.
> > 
> > This appears to be known, and some tools like perf started auto-bumping
> > limit:
> >   https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/17/714
> > 
> > I'd prefer LTP does that too, we can always revert later when it's
> > fixed/changed on kernel side.
> 
> Agreed then, will you prepare the patch?

Sure, I'll post it today.

> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
> 


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