On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> This series fixes oopses on Alpha/SMP observed since kernel v6.9. [1]
> Thanks to Magnus Lindholm for identifying that remarkably longstanding
> bug.
Thank you. TL;DR: I've completed regression testing now and the results
are looking good, so I have posted my Tested-by: tags now.
Sadly original verification triggered a glitch which sometimes happens in
the operation of my server's intranet network card that puts the device
offline until it's hot-removed and the re-discovered. I suspect a driver
bug triggering under higher traffic, but that yet has to be investigated
and it's a bit of a challenge with a machine that is at a remote location
and in constant use.
I have only discovered it once 1023 tests got affected and consequently
failed due to the inability to reach the target Alpha system. I concluded
it was infeasible to run the failed tests by hand and then try to merge
the results.
Instead I disabled the extra prolonged tests discussed in the previous
update and rerun the remaining whole testsuite. That completed in ~23h
and produced a few regressions and progressions, the former for the "math"
and "nptl" test subsets, as well as one "string" test ("test-strnlen"). I
have therefore verified them by hand and triggered the failures with your
patchset removed, so I concluded their failed results are not the outcome
of your changes.
So this is good to go in as far as I'm concerned, as noted at the top.
Thank you for taking time to work on this problem.
Maciej
