Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7 0/5] acpi unit-test: added tests

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 13:33 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:33:20PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > Added 2 tests:
> > >  1. Basic check of FACS table (missed on prev submission)
> > >  2. Compare DSDT and SSDT tables against expected values
> > > 
> > > Test 2:
> > >  - runs only if iasl is installed on the host machine.
> > >  - the test plan:
> > >    1. Dumps the ACPI tables as AML on the disk.
> > >    2. Runs iasl to disassembly the tables into ASL files.
> > >    3. Compares them with expected offline ASL files.
> > > 
> > >  - the test runs for both default machine and q35.
> > >  - in case the test fails, it can be easily tweaked to
> > >    show the differences between the ASL files and
> > >    understand the issue.
> > 
> > That's very useful, thanks.
> > But why do you want to put this in 1.7?
> Because the generation of the ACPI tables
> was moved to qemu in 1.7 and the unit-tests can be
> viewed as feature validation.
> 
> I have nothing against moving it to 1.8, its up to you,
> Thanks,
> Marcel

I see.  I do worry about adding non bugfix patches now but
maybe tests are an exception?
What do others think?

> > 
> > > Patches:
> > >  1/5 - test 1
> > >  2/5 - some infrastructure improvements
> > >  3/5 - expected asl files for test 2
> > >  4/5 - creates links for the expected files
> > >        if the build directory is not current
> > >  5/5 - test 2
> > > 
> > > Marcel Apfelbaum (5):
> > >   acpi unit-test: load and check facs table
> > >   acpi unit-test: adjust the test data structure for better handling
> > >   acpi unit-test: add test files
> > >   configure: added acpi unit-test files
> > >   acpi unit-test: compare DSDT and SSDT tables against expected values
> > > 
> > >  configure                         |    4 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC.dsl  |  103 ++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT.dsl  | 1870 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/FACP.dsl  |   99 ++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/FACS.dsl  |   32 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET.dsl  |   43 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/pc/SSDT.dsl  |  634 ++++++++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC.dsl |  103 ++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT.dsl | 3197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/FACP.dsl |   99 ++
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/FACS.dsl |   32 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET.dsl |   43 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG.dsl |   36 +
> > >  tests/acpi-test-data/q35/SSDT.dsl |  665 ++++++++
> > >  tests/acpi-test.c                 |  282 +++-
> > >  15 files changed, 7210 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/FACP.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/FACS.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/pc/SSDT.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/FACP.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/FACS.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG.dsl
> > >  create mode 100644 tests/acpi-test-data/q35/SSDT.dsl
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 1.8.3.1
> > > 
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