Bug 767856

Summary:	sys-process/numactl-2.0.14: checktopology fails on sparc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	TESTFAILURE
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/numactl/numactl/issues/102
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rolf Eike Beer archtester

2021-01-29 14:31:12 UTC

cd test && ./regress2
./../test/distance
000: 010

./../test/nodemap
0:  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63

./../test/checkaffinity

./../test/checktopology
numactl --hardware cpus look bogus
./../test/checktopology FAILED!!!!
make: *** [Makefile:1997: regress2] Error 1


The problem in all this is the expected output of the testcase. That one wants to count CPUs by calling "grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo", which doesn't help on sparc as the layout of this file is different there:

cpu             : UltraSparc T2 (Niagara2)
fpu             : UltraSparc T2 integrated FPU
pmu             : niagara2
prom            : OBP 4.33.6 2012/03/14 08:07
type            : sun4v
ncpus probed    : 64
ncpus active    : 64
D$ parity tl1   : 0
I$ parity tl1   : 0
cpucaps         : flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,blkinit,n2,mul32,div32,v8plus,popc,vis,vis2,ASIBlkInit
Cpu0ClkTck      : 000000005458c3a0
Cpu1ClkTck      : 000000005458c3a0
Cpu2ClkTck      : 000000005458c3a0
...
Cpu62ClkTck     : 000000005458c3a0
Cpu63ClkTck     : 000000005458c3a0
MMU Type        : Hypervisor (sun4v)
MMU PGSZs       : 8K,64K,4MB,256MB
State:
CPU0:           online
CPU1:           online
CPU2:           online

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2021-01-29 14:36:01 UTC

Can you report this to upstream please?