[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test: Account for readahead tracepoints
Nick Alcock
nick.alcock at oracle.com
Tue Jan 27 12:55:32 UTC 2026
On 22 Jan 2026, eugene loh uttered the following:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
>
> Some tests check for empty probe descriptions. In some cases, the tests
> relied on the absence of any read* modules.
Argh! Sorry, this was my bug way back when. I don't know why I thought
this would work in the long term...
> However, some kernels can have "readahead" tracepoints. Tests expecting
> no read* modules will therefore fail.
>
> Change these tests to ask for readfoo* modules to ensure that the probe
> descriptions will indeed find no probes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
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