Re: Please validate test kernel on UltraSPARC machines

For stress and benchmark tests:
Install stress-ng and hardinfo2


> On Sep 8, 2025, at 3:23 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 00:21 +0200, Gregor Riepl wrote:
>>>> [ 2255.968848] hwinfo(1259): Oops [#1]
>>>> [ 2256.014758] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1259 Comm: hwinfo Tainted: G    B   W          6.12.38+1-sparc64-smp #1  Debian 6.12.38-1+sparc64
>>>> [ 2256.167278] Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN
>> 
>> It looks like this was actually something hwinfo did, and not disk write access.
>> The hwinfo process became unkillable afterwards and blocked proper shutdown later, but the rest of the system remained stable. It also survived several rounds of bonnie++.
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions for a long-term stress test I could run?
> 
> Please try this kernel: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
> 
> Adrian
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