On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 03:40:14PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 05:19:20PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 08:26:02AM +0800, Chunyu Hu wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 04:03:59PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 07:40:23PM +0800, Chunyu Hu wrote: > > > > > There are several tests requires transprarent hugepages, when run on > > > > > thp > > > > > disabled kernel such as realtime kernel, there will be false positve. > > > > > > > > I presume that when THP tests run on kernels with THP disabled they fail > > > > and it would be a false negative rather than false positive. > > > > > > This is an interesting point. I'm not naitive speaker. I just learned > > > from AI. It really matters what we define as 'postive'. I presume > > > 'postive' > > > is we run selftest and got a failure report, that's postive, not thinking > > > as it's thp disabled kernel and a 'pass' is postive. > > > > I think that a passing test is "positive" and a failing test is "negative". > > So a test that fails because of misconfiguration is a false negative to me. > > (Ostensibly native speaker here :P) > > Yes. > > False positive = the test passed when it should have failed. > False negative = The test failed when it should have passed.
Ok. Thank you for clarify. I'll use 'false netative' instead . > > Cheers, Lorenzo >
