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Re: Race condition in localedata tests?


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:39 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 11/18/2014 11:17 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When machine is under heavy load, I saw
>>>
>>> FAIL: localedata/bug-iconv-trans
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst-mbswcs6
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst-trans
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst-wctype
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_mbrlen
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_mbrtowc
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_mbsrtowcs
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_mbstowcs
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_mbtowc
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_swscanf
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_wcrtomb
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_wcsrtombs
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_wcstombs
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_wctob
>>> FAIL: localedata/tst_wctomb
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen it?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Failing memory allocations?
>
> I have plenty of memory.
>
>> Do the tests have explicit dependencies on the locales they use?
>> Perhaps it just happens that de_DE.UTF-8 hits the filesystem by
>> the time the test runs.
>>
>
> localedata/Makefile has
>
> # Dependency for the locale files.  We actually make it depend only on
> # one of the files.
> $(addprefix $(objpfx),$(CTYPE_FILES)): %: \
>   gen-locale.sh $(common-objpfx)locale/localedef Makefile \
>   $(addprefix charmaps/,$(CHARMAPS)) $(addprefix locales/,$(LOCALE_SRCS))
>         @$(SHELL) gen-locale.sh $(common-objpfx) \
>                   '$(built-program-cmd-before-env)' '$(run-program-env)' \
>                   '$(built-program-cmd-after-env)' $@; \
>         $(evaluate-test)
>
> $(addsuffix .out,$(addprefix $(objpfx),$(tests))): %: \
>   $(addprefix $(objpfx),$(CTYPE_FILES))
>
> $(objpfx)sort-test.out: sort-test.sh $(objpfx)collate-test $(objpfx)xfrm-test \
>                        $(test-input-data) $(addprefix $(objpfx),$(CTYPE_FILES))
>         $(SHELL) $< $(common-objpfx) '$(test-program-prefix-before-env)' \
>           '$(run-program-env)' '$(test-program-prefix-after-env)' \
>           $(test-input) \
>           > $@; \
>         $(evaluate-test)
>
> However, there is no $(CTYPE_FILES) dependency for those tests
> above, which fail at random under heavy load with parallel build.
>
>

I opened:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17617


-- 
H.J.


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