Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/10] pc, pci, virtio: fixes for rc1

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

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 05:38:18PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 02:41:09PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 15 November 2017 at 18:17, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > The following changes since commit 1fa0f627d03cd0d0755924247cafeb42969016bf:
> > >
> > >   Update version for v2.11.0-rc1 release (2017-11-14 18:37:49 +0000)
> > >
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > >
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/mst/qemu.git tags/for_upstream
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 6ed0c1c3ab0925009d15cffb944d9ccb04718846:
> > >
> > >   build-sys: restrict vmcoreinfo to fw_cfg+dma capable targets (2017-11-15 20:13:13 +0200)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > pc, pci, virtio: fixes for rc1
> > >
> > > A bunch of fixes all over the place.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Hi. This failed tests on a couple of machines:
> > 
> > s390x:
> > 
> > TEST: tests/bios-tables-test... (pid=58925)
> >   /i386/acpi/piix4:
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> > 'iasl -p /tmp/asl-CHIM9Y.dsl -d tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT' exited
> > with status 65280
> > Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> > ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20160108-64
> > Copyright (c) 2000 - 2016 Intel Corporation
> > 
> > Could not get ACPI tables from tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT, AE_BAD_HEADER
> > Input file tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT, Length 0x1418 (5144) bytes
> > Table [DSDT] is too long for file - needs: 0x18140000, remaining in file: 0x1418
> > **
> > ERROR:/home/linux1/qemu/tests/bios-tables-test.c:461:test_acpi_asl:
> > assertion failed: (!err && !exp_err)
> > FAIL
> > GTester: last random seed: R02S7430f83941b25a926c586492b2745d2c
> > (pid=58933)
> >   /i386/acpi/q35:
> 
> 
> 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG'
> > 'iasl -p /tmp/asl-NRWT9Y.dsl -d tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT' exited
> > with status 65280
> > Intel ACPI Component Architecture
> > ASL+ Optimizing Compiler version 20160108-64
> > Copyright (c) 2000 - 2016 Intel Corporation
> > 
> > Could not get ACPI tables from tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT, AE_BAD_HEADER
> > Input file tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT, Length 0x1E94 (7828) bytes
> > Table [DSDT] is too long for file - needs: 0x941E0000, remaining in file: 0x1E94
> > **
> > ERROR:/home/linux1/qemu/tests/bios-tables-test.c:461:test_acpi_asl:
> > assertion failed: (!err && !exp_err)
> > FAIL
> > 
> > & similarly for a bunch of other tests. Looks like an
> > endianness issue.
> > 
> > and on 32-bit arm:
> > 
> > TEST: tests/bios-tables-test... (pid=30809)
> >   /i386/acpi/piix4:
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/APIC'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/pc/HPET'
> > 'iasl -p /tmp/asl-6T2N9Y.dsl -e /tmp/aml-TV2N9Y -d /tmp/aml-TV2N9Y'
> > exited with status 11Input file /tmp/aml-TV2N9Y, Length 0x1418 (5144)
> > bytes
> > ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000000000000 001418 (v01 BOCHS  BXPCDSDT 00000001
> > BXPC 00000001)
> > Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
> > Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
> > Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
> > 
> > Parsing completed
> > 'iasl -p /tmp/asl-PKDO9Y.dsl -e tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT -d
> > tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT' exited with status 11Input file
> > tests/acpi-test-data/pc/DSDT, Length 0x1418 (5144) bytes
> > ACPI: DSDT 0x0000000000000000 001418 (v01 BOCHS  BXPCDSDT 00000001
> > BXPC 00000001)
> > Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
> > Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
> > Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
> > 
> > Parsing completed
> > **
> > ERROR:/home/peter.maydell/qemu/tests/bios-tables-test.c:461:test_acpi_asl:
> > assertion failed: (!err && !exp_err)
> > FAIL
> > GTester: last random seed: R02S5d06952865b5a6ffb8443ae4d324e880
> > (pid=30816)
> >   /i386/acpi/q35:
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/DSDT'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/APIC'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/HPET'
> > 
> > Looking for expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG'
> > 
> > Using expected file 'tests/acpi-test-data/q35/MCFG'
> > OK
> > 
> > (and similar fails in other tests)
> > 
> > 
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
> 
> I think it's     test: fix detection of errors from iasl
> I'll drop it for now.

I think that patch is merely exposing a failure that has always
happened, but which we've never noticed before. So dropping that
patch just hides the error again, doesn't fix the error.

Regards,
Daniel
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