On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:51:41PM -0800, Nikhilesh Reddy wrote: > > > >I won't give any warrantees, of course, since the AOSP kernel doesn't > >build on x86 and so I can't easily run regression tests on it. So if > >it breaks, you will get to keep both pieces. I will try to at least > >look at bug reports, though, and I can say that 3.18 backport on the > >stock 3.10 kernel survives xfstests much better than the 3.10 version > >of ext4, since a modern xfstests very quickly caused the stock 3.10 > >kernel to panic. :-) Note: I managed to patch/bludgeon the AOSP kernel so it will build on x86 (apparently some Nvidia engineers wasn't very careful about adding Tegra support without breaking x86 builds, boo hiss), and so I was able to run a quick smoke test using kvm-xfstests. "kvm-xfstests smoke" runs most of the tests successfully, modulo a few expected failures, but then the kernel locks up after executing "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; cat /proc/slabinfo" in the test framework, which happens just before it halts the VM. I suspect there is a bug in my commit (f9f56f19dc) which lets ext4 use the older shrinker API which is used by the 3.10 kernel. It's on my todo list to look at, but I'm in Mountain View this week and my time has been almost toally sucked up by meetings, so I haven't gotten to it yet. So in case you end up doing some testing of the 3.10 backport branch, I thought I should give you a quick heads up. Cheers, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
