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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>,
	osstest-admin@xenproject.org,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [xen-unstable test] 112855: regressions - trouble: blocked/broken/fail/pass
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:52:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59A44A330200007800174983@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f3830ec-ee60-162d-a5f1-8df2017cf875@oracle.com>

>>> On 28.08.17 at 16:24, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> As for periodically testing process_pending_softirqs() we may still want
>>> to do this in alloc_heap_pages(), even without CONFIG_SCRUB_DEBUG.
>> For my taste, alloc_heap_pages() is the wrong place for such
>> calls.
> 
> But the loop is in alloc_heap_pages() --- where else would you be testing?

It can only reasonably be the callers of alloc_heap_pages() imo.
A single call to it should never trigger the watchdog, only calls
themselves sitting in a loop should be potential candidates for
causing such.

Jan


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-28 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-25  3:15 [xen-unstable test] 112855: regressions - trouble: blocked/broken/fail/pass osstest service owner
2017-08-25 13:40 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-25 17:14   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-28  7:25     ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-28 13:57       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-28 14:02         ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-28 14:24           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-28 14:52             ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2017-08-28 15:36               ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-29  8:07                 ` Jan Beulich
2017-08-29 12:45                   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-29 13:12                     ` Jan Beulich

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