Changeset 44b216e

Timestamp:

02/18/2024 11:30:10 PM (7 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib, xry111/multilib

Children:

9658a0eb

Parents:

b3a55dc (diff), 5f2ba8c (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
Use the (diff) links above to see all the changes relative to each parent.

Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

Location:

chapter08

Files:

• gcc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• glibc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/gcc.xml

@@ -194 +194 @@
     <ulink url="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/"/>.</para>
 
- <para><!--Two tests named <filename>pr104610.c</filename> and
-    <filename>pr69482-1.c</filename> are known to fail because the test
-    files does not account for the
-    <parameter>- -enable-default-ssp</parameter> option.-->
-    <!-- https://gcc.gnu.org/PR106375 and https://gcc.gnu.org/PR109353 -->
-    Eight gcc tests (out of over 185,000), data-model-4.c, pr56837.c, 
-    and six "analyzer" tests are known to fail.
-
-    One libstdc++ test (out of over 15000), copy.cc, is known to fail.
-
-    For g++, 21 tests (out of approximately 250,000), 14 "AddressSanitizer*"
-    tests and 7 interception-malloc-test-1.C tests, are known to fail.
+    <para>
+    Eight gcc tests (out of over 185,000):
+    <!-- https://gcc.gnu.org/PR106375 --><filename>pr56837.c</filename>
+    and seven tests in the <filename class='directory'>analyzer</filename>
+    directory are known to fail.
+
+    <!-- https://gcc.gnu.org/PR109353 -->
+    One libstdc++ test (out of over 15000), <filename>copy.cc</filename>, is
+    known to fail.
+
+    For g++, 21 tests (out of approximately 250,000): 14
+    <quote>AddressSanitizer*</quote>
+    tests and 7 <filename>interception-malloc-test-1.C</filename> tests, are
+    known to fail.
 
     Additionally, several tests in the
     <filename class='directory'>vect</filename> directory are known to fail
     if the hardware does not support AVX.</para>
- <!--
-    <para>
-      With Glibc-2.39, the gcc analyzer tests named
-      <filename>data-model-4.c</filename> and
-      <filename>conftest-1.c</filename> 
-        are known to fail.
-      In the asan tests, several tests in <filename>asan_test.C</filename> 
-        are known to fail.
-      The test named <filename>interception-malloc-test-1.C</filename> 
-        is known to fail.
-    </para>
--->
+
     <para>A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The GCC developers
     are usually aware of these issues, but have not resolved them yet.
     Unless the test results are vastly different from those at the above URL,
     it is safe to continue.</para>
-
-    <!--note><para>
-      On some combinations of kernel configuration and AMD processors
-      there may be more than 1100 failures in the gcc.target/i386/mpx
-      tests (which are designed to test the MPX option on recent
-      Intel processors). These can safely be ignored on AMD
-      processors. These tests will also fail on Intel processors if MPX support
-      is not enabled in the kernel even though it is present on the CPU.
-    </para></note-->
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>

chapter08/glibc.xml

@@ -172 +172 @@
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>Three <emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity*</emphasis>
-        tests are known to fail.</para>
-      </listitem>
-
-<!-- Did not fail with glibc-2.38
-      <listitem>
-        <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
-        is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
-      </listitem>
--->
-
-      <!-- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-August/141567.html -->
-      <listitem>
-        <para>The <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>
-        test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.</para>
-      </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
         <para>Some tests, for example
-        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>,
-        are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
-        timeout.</para>
+        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis> and
+        <emphasis>nptl/tst-thread-affinity*</emphasis>
+        are known to fail due to a timeout (especially when the system is
+        relatively slow and/or running the test suite with multiple
+        parallel make jobs).  These tests can be identified with:</para>
+
+        <!-- TODO: Using nodump for freeze.  Change it to role="test" after
+             12.1 release so jhalfs can list these in the log.  -->
+        <screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep "Timed out" -l $(find -name \*.out)</userinput></screen>
+
+        <para>It's possible to re-run a single test with enlarged timeout
+        with
+        <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=<replaceable>&lt;factor&gt;</replaceable>
+        make test t=<replaceable>&lt;test name&gt;</replaceable></command>.
+        For example, <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=10 make test
+        t=nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</command> will re-run
+        <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis> with ten times
+        the original timeout.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
         <para>Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
-        model or host kernel version.</para>
+        model (for example
+        <emphasis>elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo</emphasis>) or host kernel
+        version (for example
+        <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>).</para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>