When I run the test 558 on bcachefs, it works like a fork-bomb and kills the machine. The reason is that the "while" loop spawns "create_file" subprocesses faster than they are able to complete. This patch fixes the crash by limiting the number of subprocesses to 128. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tests/generic/558 | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: xfstests-dev/tests/generic/558 =================================================================== --- xfstests-dev.orig/tests/generic/558 +++ xfstests-dev/tests/generic/558 @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ echo "Create $((loop * file_per_dir)) fi while [ $i -lt $loop ]; do create_file $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir $file_per_dir $i >>$seqres.full 2>&1 & let i=$i+1 + if [ $((i % 128)) = 0 ]; then wait; fi done wait
