Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out

From: CAI Qian
Date: Mon Apr 08 2013 - 23:05:29 EST


Hello Ted,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Eric Whitney" <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Dmitry Monakhov" <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Christian Kujau" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "CAI Qian"
> <caiqian@xxxxxxxxxx>, "LKML" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-s390" <linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steve Best"
> <sbest@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 10:41:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out
>
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:34:06AM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> >
> > The TI OMAP4 processor on my Pandaboard test system is little endian.
>
> Ah... so basically, we need to find a test platform which allows us to
> boot arbitrary kernels and allows us to have root access (which means
> it's unlikely we'll be able to do this via remote access) and which
> doesn't have exotic power requirements (which as far as I know rules
> out pSeries and zSeries systems....)
>
> It would also be nice if we could run tests in finite time, which
> probably rules out the Hercules emulator (it runs at one-tenth zSeries
> processor speeds, which doesn't win speed competitions by default, and
> I suspect their storage speeds are even worse).
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions? Or anyone willing to help us run
> ext4 regression tests on the ext4 dev tree, so we can find these
> problems before we merge into mainline?
I can help run xfstests for ext4 dev tree on x64, Power7, Z10 and
KVM platforms with back-storage like SAN/multipath, iSCSI and FCoE.
I plan to run this weekly and setup a wiki page to update the testing
status by every Friday.
CAI Qian
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ted
>
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