Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/25] generalize parsing of cpu_model (part 4)

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:52:25AM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
[...]
> > * I suggest testing all CPU models in patch 02/25, but this
> >   shouldn't block the series.  Can be a follow-up patch.
> the goal of the test is that refactoring didn't regress
> 'none' machine after following change in 23/25:
> 
> @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ static void machine_none_init(MachineState *mch)
>  {
>      CPUState *cpu = NULL;
>  
> -    /* Initialize CPU (if a model has been specified) */
> -    if (mch->cpu_model) {
> -        cpu = cpu_init(mch->cpu_model);
> +    /* Initialize CPU (if user asked for it) */
> +    if (mch->cpu_type) {
> +        cpu = cpu_create(mch->cpu_type);
> 
> for that it's sufficient to probe one cpu model.
> 
> We can do all cpus probing later if there will be need in it,
> but that's not related to this series and would just waste
> 'make check' time if it won't be doing something meaningful
> with probed cpu.

Not making "make check" slow is a good argument, I agree.

Extensive testing like testing all CPU models or all devices
probably should be done in a separate (slower) test set.

-- 
Eduardo