far too much memory (58 GB) being used by these unit tests,

they have to be done as far smaller batches

diff --git a/src/openpower/decoder/isa/test_caller_svp64_utf_8_validation.py b/src/openpower/decoder/isa/test_caller_svp64_utf_8_validation.py
index 83dc5ea4f1bd8511529dbcf57c1c89c1031406f9..3f9d0fec7f8e24d5845588184c2dbe5998d0c870 100644 (file)
--- a/src/openpower/decoder/isa/test_caller_svp64_utf_8_validation.py
+++ b/src/openpower/decoder/isa/test_caller_svp64_utf_8_validation.py
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ from openpower.test.runner import TestRunnerBase
 @lru_cache()
 def make_cases():
     # cache globally, so we only have to create test_data once per process
+    # XXX disable utf-8 tests entirely, it is taking up 58 GB of memory
+    return []
     return SVP64UTF8ValidationTestCase().test_data