Re: kern/47563: test cases do not timeout and hang

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/47563; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/47563: test cases do not timeout and hang
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:13:14 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:25:03AM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 >  For urgent cases, the test case should be bluntly marked as broken.
 
 The pserialize issue breaks all fss related tests and all others that
 try to start a rump environment including the npf rump components (like
 rump_allserver).
 
 It only works on non SMP machines (pserialize is a NO-OP there) or by accident
 on x86.
 
 IMHO the proper fix for this should be discussed publically ASAP, instead
 privately or not at all. According to our commit rules, if taken formally,
 both the fss and npf changes which made those subsystems use pserialize 
 would need to be backed out untill a real solution is found.
 
 Martin