trunk test result inconsistencies

[Andrew MacLeod]

On 04/22/2015 08:33 AM, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 04/22/2015 06:28 AM, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
>> On 04/22/2015 08:19 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:04:03AM -0400, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
>>>> Is anyone else seeing comparison problems on trunk?
>>>>
>>>> I was having problems testing a patch on a 4/16 extraction, so last
>>>> night I
>>>> checked out a fresh trunk, built it, ran make check... then removed 
>>>> the
>>>> build directory, re-built it from scratch again. make check..  and 
>>>> get a
>>>> bunch of different results.     I even used test_summary instead of
>>>> my own
>>>> home-grown scripts.
>>> That is a buggy kernel, you must have missed a warning not to upgrade
>>> your
>>> kernel.  See
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96311
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/13/600
>>> Dunno what progress has been on that patch since then, don't see it in
>>> latest Linus' git though.
>>> AFAIK at least 3.19 and 4.0 kernels are affected.
>> A nice. Thanks.   I did not see the warning, no :-)  That pretty
>> seriously buggy!
>> It may also have been poor timing on installing the OS and initial
>> upgrading of all the packages
> shell.devel.redhat.com/~law has a 4.0 kernel with the tty fix if you 
> don't want to try and downgrade.
>
>
Thanks, but the original 3.17.blah is still available at boot time, so I 
just switched to that.    Should be good enough until the fix shows up.

Andrew