Re: Problems with the priority flag for signaltest and sigwaittest

Re: Problems with the priority flag for signaltest and sigwaittest

[Clark Williams]

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On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:54:23 -0500
"Brown, Thomas" <thomas_brown@mentor.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> We are experiencing issues with the priority flag set for the following 
> tests on separate platforms...
> 
> signaltest -p99 -l100000 t4
> 
> |sigwaittest -p80 -t4 -l100000|
> 
> In the first case it appeared when debugging with gdb that a thread was 
> not joining or terminating properly and the kernel blows up 
> spectacularly with many oops and traces.
> 

What architecture and kernel versions were you running on?

> In the second case it is difficult to retrieve any debug information.
> 

Were you running kernels and rt-tests binaries that you built or were you
running distro provided images? 

By "difficult to retrieve any debug information" do you mean that you couldn't
get debugging symbols or that gdb wouldn't show symbolic information?

> Please let me know if there is any insight into these problems or if 
> there is a better contact for resolving these issues.
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Thomas Brown
> 
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> 


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