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From: Will S. <wil...@vn...> - 2017-06-08 19:01:57
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On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 08:25 -0700, Carl E. Love wrote: > Julian: > > I have tested 3.13.0 RC1 on Power 7, Power 8 BE, Power 8 LE, Power 9 > internal development platforms. I did not find any regressions, I did > notice a couple of tests seem to run a little different on Power 9 then > expected. For example, memcheck/tests/ppc64/power_ISA2_07 gave > > --- power_ISA2_07.stderr.exp 2017-05-31 10:13:56.000000000 -0500 > +++ power_ISA2_07.stderr.out 2017-06-07 10:30:10.277404680 -0500 > @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ > > HEAP SUMMARY: > in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks > - total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated > + total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 4,096 bytes allocated > > > Seems a little strange that we see heap usage on Power 9 but not earlier > platforms. We will want to look into it but at this point. I don't see > it as an issue that need fixing for this release. I see this on older platforms with newer OS installs, (i.e. fedora 25 in a power8 guest). I suspect something glibc related. in any case, it's not a power9 specific thing. > > Carl Love > |