tests: Flaky strace-tst-thp-*-disabled tests

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Wed Aug 19 11:34:30 GMT 2026



On 19/08/26 05:55, Yury Khrustalev wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Has anyone else noticed that the elf/strace-tst-thp-*-disabled tests are
> flaky producing FAIL results because madvise syscall occasionally occurs
> despite using tunable glibc.elf.thp=0?
> 
> The current logic of how this tunable is handled is a bit complex, I'm
> trying to pin point the reason for this, but I've seen these tests
> failing from time to time with no particular pattern.
I recalled that I saw some spurious issue after the release, but I haven't
see any after 2be733e9e0b2e8871cd282f2ee868d75108db7f1. I will double check.


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