Re: [PATCH] .travis.yml: skip ppc64abi32-linux-user with plugins

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:55:16PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> We actually see failures on threadcount running without plugins:
> 
>   retry.py -n 1000 -c -- \
>     ./ppc64abi32-linux-user/qemu-ppc64abi32 \
>     ./tests/tcg/ppc64abi32-linux-user/threadcount
> 
> which reports:
> 
>   0: 978 times (97.80%), avg time 0.270 (0.01 varience/0.08 deviation)
>   -6: 21 times (2.10%), avg time 0.336 (0.01 varience/0.12 deviation)
>   -11: 1 times (0.10%), avg time 0.502 (0.00 varience/0.00 deviation)
>   Ran command 1000 times, 978 passes
> 
> But when running with plugins we hit the failure a lot more often:
> 
>   0: 91 times (91.00%), avg time 0.302 (0.04 varience/0.19 deviation)
>   -11: 9 times (9.00%), avg time 0.558 (0.01 varience/0.11 deviation)
>   Ran command 100 times, 91 passes
> 
> The crash occurs in guest code which is the same in both pass and fail
> cases. However we see various messages reported on the console about
> corrupted memory lists which seems to imply the guest memory allocation
> is corrupted. This lines up with the seg fault being in the guest
> __libc_free function. So we think this is a guest bug which is
> exacerbated by various modes of translation. If anyone has access to
> real hardware to soak test the test case we could prove this properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Honestly, AFAICT the ppc64abi32-linux-user target is pretty much
entirely broken anyway.  Many things about it appear to make no
sense, it's difficult to work out what it's even supposed to be, and I
strongly suspect no-one's actually used it in like a decade.

> ---
>  .travis.yml | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index ab429500fc..6695c0620f 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -350,9 +350,10 @@ jobs:
>      # Run check-tcg against linux-user (with plugins)
>      # we skip sparc64-linux-user until it has been fixed somewhat
>      # we skip cris-linux-user as it doesn't use the common run loop
> +    # we skip ppc64abi32-linux-user as it seems to have a broken libc
>      - name: "GCC plugins check-tcg (user)"
>        env:
> -        - CONFIG="--disable-system --enable-plugins --enable-debug-tcg --target-list-exclude=sparc64-linux-user,cris-linux-user"
> +        - CONFIG="--disable-system --enable-plugins --enable-debug-tcg --target-list-exclude=sparc64-linux-user,cris-linux-user,ppc64abi32-linux-user"
>          - TEST_BUILD_CMD="make build-tcg"
>          - TEST_CMD="make check-tcg"
>          - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-debug-tcg"

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