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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: zhaogongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>,
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Cc: "akinobu.mita@gmail.com" <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	"corbet@lwn.net" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"osalvador@suse.de" <osalvador@suse.de>,
	"shuah@kernel.org" <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/3] selftests/memory-hotplug: Add checking after online or offline
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:45:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f2615f2-27c6-34e5-77f3-166d0e7b6182@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd8998bcfe0e4b82a617dfd79d93368c@huawei.com>


>> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>>
>>
>> I am questioning the stability of the offlining test, though.
>> Offlining a random memory block can fail easily, because "->removable" is not
>> expressive:
>>
>> # tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/mem-on-off-test.sh
>> Test scope: 2% hotplug memory
>>            online all hot-pluggable memory in offline state:
>>                    SKIPPED - no hot-pluggable memory in offline state
>>            offline 2% hot-pluggable memory in online state
>>            trying to offline 2 out of 96 memory block(s):
>> online->offline memory0
>> tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/mem-on-off-test.sh: line 78: echo:
>> write error: Invalid argument offline_memory_expect_success 0: unexpected
>> fail
>> online->offline memory10
>> online->offline memory11
>>
>>
>> I guess this test will almost always fail nowadays.
> 
> Offline some memory node maybe failed as expected, but the error message is a bit annoying.

Ah, I see it now. We try offlining two and fail offlining the first one. 
Can we silence that warning in that case somehow?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-28 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-27 11:56 zhaogongyi
2022-09-28 12:45 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-09-29 12:08 zhaogongyi
2022-09-29  7:39 zhaogongyi
2022-09-29  9:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-27  3:28 [PATCH -next v4 0/3] Optimize and bugfix for memory-hotplug Zhao Gongyi
2022-09-27  3:28 ` [PATCH -next v4 1/3] selftests/memory-hotplug: Add checking after online or offline Zhao Gongyi
2022-09-27  7:26   ` David Hildenbrand

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