Re: anita tests timing out

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 22,  1:22pm, paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: anita tests timing out

| On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Paul Goyette wrote:
| 
| > Interesting - Andreas reports that his i386/4-hour-timer fails at the
| > same test that my amd64/2-hour-timer fails:
| >
| >     modules/t_modctl (411/492): 5 test cases
| >         cmd_load:
| 
| Intgeresting.  I just checked my logs, and for the period between 
| 2011-11-18 08:50:04 and 2011-11-20 12:20:04, my test bed was getting 
| much further before hitting the 2-hour time limit.  In fact, I was 
| getting close to the end of the tests (into the util/ tests).
| 
| Then between 2011-11-20 12:20:04 and 2011-11-20 18:20:05 the timeout 
| started to occur in the modules/t_modctl test, and has consistently 
| failed at the same point since.  During this 6-hour window, only the 
| following 22 files were changed:

Well, it is fixed now. I introduced an infinite loop in the kernel vsnprintf()
code.

christos