FAIL nptl/tst-robustpi4

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Thu Jan 26 16:12:00 GMT 2017


On 01/26/2017 10:29 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> It seems as a race between futex- and exit-syscall causes ESRCH
> result from futex-syscall.
> 
> I see those fails with Linux 4.8 / 4.9 running in a z/VM guest as
> well as with 4.6 on a LPAR (but less often).

I've seen tst-robustpi7 and tst-robustpi8 failures on all hardware
across a wide number of kernels, but never tst-robustpi4.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19004

The robustpi support is certainly not very robust as Torvald's
recent fixes show, and there still remains at least one design
flaw that can't be fixed.

e.g.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485

and...
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19089

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.



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