On qemuarm64 systems, about half of the valgrind tests fail and
often result in defunct processes, eg:
root 819 818 25 00:12 pts/0 00:01:52 /usr/bin/valgrind --command-line-only=yes --memcheck:leak-check=no --tool=memcheck -q --track-origins=
root 861 420 0 00:13 pts/0 00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
Eventually these processes use so much memory that the
out of memory killer runs.
Hide the tests that fail as a horrid work-around until the
root cause has been resolved since this at least allows the
ptest run to complete. This work-around is done in the run-ptest
script using a sorted list of tests so that they can be easily
restored one by one without a rebuild during testing.
With core-image-minimal on qemuarm64:
Recipe | Passed | Failed | Skipped | Time(s)
valgrind | 333 | 49 | 17 | 7637
(From OE-Core rev: 208023f8fcbf4aee34544a80f962ae25f25ffb8d)
Signed-off-by: Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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