Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-user: disable broken test

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 02:08:22PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> tests/vhost-user-test keeps failing on build-system since Aug 15:
> 
>   ERROR:tests/vhost-user-test.c:835:test_flags_mismatch: child process (/i386/vhost-user/flags-mismatch/subprocess [4836]) failed unexpectedly
> ...
>   ERROR:tests/vhost-user-test.c:807:test_connect_fail: child process (/x86_64/vhost-user/connect-fail/subprocess [58910]) failed unexpectedly

Seems like it is always the subprocess tests which fail
from what I see. So rather than disable the entire test,
just put

   if (1) {
       g_test_skip("Skipping unreliable subprocess test");
       return;
   }

at the top of each test_*_subprocess() method

> 
> The test can still be build for debug session using:
> 
>   $ FORCE_VHOST_USER_NET_TEST=1 ./configure ...
> 
> Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>  configure | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index fb7e34a901..d3b895b167 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -6386,7 +6386,12 @@ if supported_kvm_target $target; then
>      if test "$vhost_net" = "yes" ; then
>          echo "CONFIG_VHOST_NET=y" >> $config_target_mak
>          if test "$vhost_user" = "yes" ; then
> -            echo "CONFIG_VHOST_USER_NET_TEST_$target_name=y" >> $config_host_mak
> +            if test -n "${FORCE_VHOST_USER_NET_TEST}"; then
> +                echo "CONFIG_VHOST_USER_NET_TEST_$target_name=y" >> $config_host_mak
> +            elif test -z "${VHOST_USER_NET_TEST_WARNED}"; then
> +                echo "warning: vhost-user tests disabled" >&2
> +                VHOST_USER_NET_TEST_WARNED="warned"
> +            fi
>          fi
>      fi
>  fi
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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