Re: linux-next: test failure after merge of the mm-nonmm-unstable tree

From: Mark Brown

Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 09:56:40 EST


On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 01:00:07PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> After merging the mm-nonmm-unstable tree, today's linux-next testing
> (arm64 kunit) failed like this:

> [11:39:24] Failures: smp-cond-load-relaxed-timeout.smp_cond_relaxed_timeout_succeeds

> Note that we are running on an arm64 host with access to KVM so the
> above should be running with KVM rather than being emulated.

> Caused by commit

> 0403c34571d1d (kunit: add tests for smp_cond_load_relaxed_timeout())

> in that it's adding the new test which fails, I didn't investigate the
> quality of the test. I do note that there's some related functional
> work also from Ankur that's also added by the mm-nonmm-unstable tree but
> didn't investigate that either.

> I have used the version from next-20260506 instead, the code was in
> next-20260508 but I belive Thierry was emulating.

Actually these patches were introduced in next-20260427 so I'll need to
go back to next-20260424 instead, sorry (got confused by the tree
rebasing). It looks like something in the more recent versions made the
issue more promienent.

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