Re: strace build time tests fail on mips64el - missing syscall support?

Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Aug 2016 01:25:38 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
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On 2016-08-08 14:39, James Cowgill wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On 08/08/16 14:35, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 02:53:35PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I'm seeing a fair number of test suite failures for strace on
> >> mips64el, both in the most recent upload[1] and in current upstream
> >> git HEAD[2]. It's looking like a lot of ENOSYS errors. Could I get
> >> some porter help with this please? Otherwise I'm tempted to remove
> >> mips64el from the arch list for the package.
> >>
> >> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=strace&arch=mips64el&ver=4.11-1&stamp=1452274105
> >> [2] http://www.einval.com/debian/strace/build-logs/mips64el/
> > 
> > Ping? Any help on this please?
> 
> I'm having a look at this.
> 
> In a preliminary check I found that about half the testsuite failures
> were caused by a kernel bug in the ptrace handling of any syscalls
> returning ENOSYS. The bug was fixed in 4.3 so testing strace on kernels
> older than that probably isn't a good idea. There are still some other
> failures though

Do you have a pointer to the fix? If it is small enough and easily
backportable, we can try to get it in the jessie kernel.

Aurelien

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