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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: FAIL nptl/tst-robustpi4
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec3d5947-a1a6-a4ee-e8cd-0a47e6408cd6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b71bec8d-ef71-1903-c7a8-fafa2fa744f5@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 01/26/2017 10:29 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> It seems as a race between futex- and exit-syscall causes ESRCH
> result from futex-syscall.
> 
> I see those fails with Linux 4.8 / 4.9 running in a z/VM guest as
> well as with 4.6 on a LPAR (but less often).

I've seen tst-robustpi7 and tst-robustpi8 failures on all hardware
across a wide number of kernels, but never tst-robustpi4.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19004

The robustpi support is certainly not very robust as Torvald's
recent fixes show, and there still remains at least one design
flaw that can't be fixed.

e.g.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485

and...
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19089

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-26 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-26 15:29 Stefan Liebler
2017-01-26 16:12 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2017-01-26 16:22   ` Torvald Riegel
2018-06-29  6:55     ` FAIL nptl/tst-robustpi4 [BZ 23183] Stefan Liebler
2018-06-29  7:39       ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-29  8:22         ` Stefan Liebler

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