[v2] selftests/powerpc: Do not fail with reschedule

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Sep 20 14:21:02 AEST 2018


On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 20:31:05 UTC, Breno Leitao wrote:
> There are cases where the test is not expecting to have the transaction
> aborted, but, the test process might have been rescheduled, either in the
> OS level or by KVM (if it is running on a KVM guest machine). The process
> reschedule will cause a treclaim/recheckpoint which will cause the
> transaction to doom, aborting the transaction as soon as the process is
> rescheduled back to the CPU. This might cause the test to fail, but this is
> not a failure in essence.
> 
> If that is the case, TEXASR[FC] is indicated with either
> TM_CAUSE_RESCHEDULE or TM_CAUSE_KVM_RESCHEDULE for KVM interruptions.
> 
> In this scenario, ignore these two failures and avoid the whole test to
> return failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero at linux.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/44d947eff19d64384efc06069509db

cheers


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