[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/testing: remove arc_summary from ZFS tests

[Romain Naour]

Hello Waldemar, All,

Le 15/09/2025 à 22:54, Waldemar Brodkorb a écrit :
> Hi,
> Romain Naour wrote,
> 
>> Hello José, All,
>>
>> Le 14/09/2025 à 06:20, José Luis Salvador Rufo a écrit :
>>> This patch replace the [1] patch.
>>>
>>> The Python 3.13 interpreter itself segfaults at runtime when compiled
>>> with uClibc on the aarch64 platform.
>>>
>>> To keep TestZfsUclibc, the execution of the arc_summary command has
>>> been removed from the ZFS tests. This command only prints some ARC
>>> stats anyway.
>>>
>>> Fixes:
>>> https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/11271124859 (TestZfsUclibc)
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.buildroot.org/pipermail/buildroot/2025-September/786396.html
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: José Luis Salvador Rufo <salvador.joseluis at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py | 2 --
>>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py b/support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py
>>> index 1b907ac4de..9feae49e86 100644
>>> --- a/support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py
>>> +++ b/support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py
>>> @@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ class TestZfsBase(infra.basetest.BRTest):
>>>              "zpool scrub -w pool",
>>>              "sha256sum -c /tmp/urandom.sha256",
>>>              "zpool status -v",
>>> -            # Check PyZFS
>>> -            "arc_summary",
>>
>> Actually the test is not about ARC stats reported by arc_summary script but a
>> check if PyZFS doesn't trigger some Python exception due to missing python
>> runtime dependency (if PyZFS is working as expected when python3 is enabled).
>>
>> This also remove the PyZFS test for musl and Glibc that are working well.
>>
>> If arc_summary is removed from the test, then we should also remove
>> BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3=y from TestZfsBase.
>>
>> The TestZfsBase is fine as is, we should not try to remove PyZFS test for the
>> sake of uClibc-ng.
>>
>> Actually, I'm worried about the aarch64 port on uClibc-ng. It's possible that
>> the issue we discover on python3 package can happen at runtime on other packages.
>>
>> If you really want to keep TestZfsUclibc, the PyZFS test should be only executed
>> by TestZfsGlibc and TestZfsMusl. I'm not sure it worth the effort. Lets remove
>> TestZfsUclibc for now and hope the issue will be fixed in uClibc-ng in upcoming
>> releases. Then TestZfsUclibc can be added back.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> I found the bug in uClibc-ng ld.so code for aarch64. I will do a
> release this weekend when I have finished testing.

Nice, Thanks for the help.

Actually, I'm happy to mark this series as rejected from patchwork. :)

Let us know when your patch is ready.

Best regards,
Romain


> 
> best regards
>  Waldemar