Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:39:53PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:32:56PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:32:56PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's >> > memory checker, in the free_check() functi

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:01:27PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's >> > memory checker, in the free_check() functi

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:32:56PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's > > memory checker, in the free_check() function. It turns out that the > > glibc memory checker in g

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 02:01:27PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's > > memory checker, in the free_check() function. It turns out that the > > glibc memory checker in g

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's > memory checker, in the free_check() function. It turns out that the > glibc memory checker in glibc 2.11 and earlier had an internal race that > caused false positives in

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-10 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's > memory checker, in the free_check() function. It turns out that the > glibc memory checker in glibc 2.11 and earlier had an internal race that > caused false positives in

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Disable glibc memory checking under glibc <= 2.11.

2014-07-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
We noticed that the unit tests sometimes fail on XenServer inside glibc's memory checker, in the free_check() function. It turns out that the glibc memory checker in glibc 2.11 and earlier had an internal race that caused false positives in multithreaded programs. This commit avoids the problem b