Re: EXT4 regression caused 4eec7

From: Dmitry Monakhov
Date: Tue May 14 2013 - 03:11:43 EST


On Mon, 13 May 2013 12:09:22 -0500, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/13/13 12:01 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Mon 13-05-13 11:34:12, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> On 5/12/13 4:01 AM, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> >>> In fact '4eec70' are vexing because I have reviewed and tested this patch before
> >>> it was marked as Review-by, but missed the bug. This is because xfstests
> >>> was executed manually logs was full of warnings but tainted flag was not
> >>> checked at the end.
> >>
> >> Can you elaborate on this? What was logged, and is it something we could
> >> try to pick up post-test in xfstests?
> > Generally I think it might be useful if xfstests would fail / warn if
> > kernel became tainted during the test (e.g. due to WARN_ON or oops, or
> > something like that). It should be even relatively easy to implement
> > (just compare /proc/sys/kernel/tainted before and after each test).
> >
> > Honza
> >
>
> Ah, right. That should be easy, I'll see if I can cook that up.
Also we can use abrt's kernel-oops handler to collect messages.
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
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