On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is an unusually large set of bug fixes for fstests. The first 20 > patches in this patchset are corrections for that RFC series. > > The most significant change is that I made ./check run each test with > its own Unix process session id. This means that a test can use pkill > to kill all of its own subprocesses, without killing anyone else's > subprocesses. I wasn't completely sold on that approach, but it works > for me. A better approach is to run each test in a separate pid and > mount namespace, but then kernel support for that becomes a hard > requirement. Both approaches seems to work for check and > check-parallel, though I've not tested that all that much. > > Note: I am /not/ happy about Dave's RFC going straight to for-next > without even a complete review right before everyone went on PTO for > several weeks for xmas/solar new year. But in the interests of getting > QA back on line for myself and everyone else who's having problems, here > it is. Thank you!!! Amir.
