[OE-core] [v2 4/4] valgrind: disable 256 ptests for aarch64

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 05:41:36PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On qemuarm64 systems, about half of the valgrind tests fail and
> often result in defunct processes, eg:
>    root       819   818 25 00:12 pts/0    00:01:52 /usr/bin/valgrind --command-line-only=yes --memcheck:leak-check=no --tool=memcheck -q --track-origins=
>    root       861   420  0 00:13 pts/0    00:00:00 [sh] <defunct>
> Eventually these processes use so much memory that the
> out of memory killer runs.
> 
> Hide the tests that fail as a horrid work-around until the
> root cause has been resolved since this at least allows the
> ptest run to complete.
>...

I can reproduce this on hardware, and I have the bad feeling that noone
will work on resolving the root cause if this is workarounded in ptest.

IMHO this should instead be listed as M3 blocker,
similar to "strace ptest timeout".

cu
Adrian

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