re: Automated regression tests of NetBSD/sparc failing

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

A few weeks ago, matthew green wrote:
> > Alas, the tests are not yet fully working on sparc.  The first 134 ATF
> > tests run fine, and most of them succeed, but at one point during the
> > fs/vfs/t_vnops test, test cases start timing out, ultimately causing
> > the test run as a whole to time out.  Here is an extract from the ATF
> > log output around the point where things start to go wrong:
> 
> what i see going on when i run atf natively is that rump_server processes
> do not exit, but spin on the CPU.  the time out happens when there are
> eventually dozens of these all competing for the CPU, and the rest of the
> atf run gets very little CPU.
> 
> so, this problem seems pretty specific to either rump server or maybe
> the sparc pthreads support...

The logs from the automated test system indicate that this failure
started happening after nonaka's ld.elf_so related commits of CVS date
2011.06.25.05.45.10 through 2011.06.25.05.50.14. The tests were
already broken before that, but they got a bit further, only getting
stuck when they reached the include/t_paths test.

The test logs can be found by visiting

  
http://releng.NetBSD.org/b5reports/sparc/commits-2011.06.html#2011.06.25.02.26.53

and following the "tests: did not complete" links before and after
nonaka's commits.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost