Results of 20070419 testing

Mike Mason mmlnx@us.ibm.com
Fri Apr 20 19:54:00 GMT 2007


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> mmlnx wrote:
> 
>> I'm working on a fix for the socket test failure.  Should be checked
>> in today.  The problem is that do_sock_write() is called in one place
>> instead of two as of 2.6.19 and, thus, gets optimized away. Same for
>> do_sock_read().  
> 
> So I assume function("do_sock_write") succeeds but function().call
> doesn't?

Yes, but I should have been more specific.  The problem is in the return probes.

> 
>> Is there any way to mark a symbol so that the compiler doesn't
>> optimize it away?
> 
> Or more precisely, does not inline it?  Yeah, but we can't require its
> use.

Understood.

Thanks,
Mike

> 
> - FChE



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