[LTP] [PATCH 0/5] syscalls: Add tests to verify the _time_high fields

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
Thu May 21 15:08:33 CEST 2020


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:47 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This patchset adds a new test to three syscalls to verify that the
> extended fields, _time_high, are cleared by the kernel. This was
> suggested by Arnd.
>
> I did run them, but on a 64 bit machine. Please see if you can check
> that they work properly on 32 bit machines, where we really want to test
> them. This is rebased over ltp master.
>
> Cyril, This conflicts a bit with my other time64 syscall tests, I will
> rebase one of these, after you apply any of these first :)

The known bugs we had here were actually on 64-bit machines running
compat 32-bit user space. You should be able to test this on most
64-bit distros using the compat libraries and building ltp against the
32-bit version (not sure what the best way is to configure that, but it
should not be hard).

     Arnd


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