From: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Questions about failing testcase nptl/test-mutex-printers
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30d6e019-0776-f8f7-ce49-4a76601ff6bd@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po2wwpbt.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
On 04/18/2018 04:40 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
> Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> As I don't have access to other lock-elision enabled machines,
>> can somebody test this on power / intel?
>
> Tested on powerpc. Same behavior.
>
>> If I step manually to the tbegin-instruction (which starts the
>> transaction on s390x) and step over it, then gdb steps over the whole
>> transaction and we are just after the tend-instruction.
>
> That behavior also happens on powerpc with all kinds of transactions.
> But it's the GDB behavior with transactions on powerpc.
> I don't know the details on s390x.
>
>> Does it make sense to disable lock-elision for the pretty-printer-tests?
>> E.g. with the following patch:
>> diff --git a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
>> b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
>> index 73ca525556..d74a8b4d4b 100644
>> --- a/scripts/test_printers_common.py
>> +++ b/scripts/test_printers_common.py
>> @@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ def init_test(test_bin, printer_files, printer_names):
>> # Finally, load the test binary.
>> test('file {0}'.format(test_bin))
>>
>> + # Disable lock elision.
>> + test('set environment GLIBC_TUNABLES glibc.elision.enable=0')
>> +
>> def go_to_main():
>> """Executes a gdb 'start' command, which takes us to main."""
>
> LGTM.
>
Thanks.
Committed:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=0085be1415a38b40a5a1a12e49368498f1687380
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-28 11:58 Stefan Liebler
2018-03-28 13:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-04-05 6:43 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-04-12 13:54 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-04-18 6:26 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-04-18 14:40 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2018-04-19 10:50 ` Stefan Liebler [this message]
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