Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 07/17 11:41, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 17.07.2017 08:35, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Today I've included a fourth type of the automatic patchew replies: FreeBSD.
> > 
> > So far we have these tests running by patchew on each patch series:
> > 
> >   * Docker tests
> >     Basically it is
> >         make docker-test-quick@centos6 \
> >              docker-test-build@min-glib \
> >              docker-test-mingw@fedora"
> > 
> >   * checkpatch.pl
> >     Each patch is fed to ./scripts/checkpatch.pl and all errors are reported.
> > 
> >   * s390x
> >     It runs on a machine shared by Fedora team, basically only "./configure and
> >     make", because "make check" hanging is tricky to deal with from an
> >     automation perspective. (Ideas?)
> 
> Is there any check that could hang "forever"? I think most of the checks
> should have a proper timeout of one or two minutes, don't they?
> 
> Maybe you could also simply run the "make check" with the "timeout"
> command to avoid that it hangs forever?

Not every operation has a timeout in our tests, with the usual culprit being
vhost-user-test.

timeout can terminate make and directly invoked qtest commands, but qemu
processes that block or hang cannot be cleaned up.

Fam