Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] boot-serial-test: use -no-shutdown

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 24 March 2017 at 13:19, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> a qemu with an empty s390 guest will exit very quickly. This races
>> against the testsuite reading from the console pipe leading to
>> intermittent test suite failures. Using -no-shutdown will keep
>> the guest running.
>>
>> Fixes: 864111f422ba (vl: exit qemu on guest panic if -no-shutdown is not set)
>> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  tests/boot-serial-test.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/boot-serial-test.c b/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> index 57edf6a..11f48b0 100644
>> --- a/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> +++ b/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ static void test_machine(const void *data)
>>      g_assert(fd != -1);
>>
>>      args = g_strdup_printf("-M %s,accel=tcg -chardev file,id=serial0,path=%s"
>> -                           " -serial chardev:serial0 %s", test->machine,
>> -                           tmpname, test->extra);
>> +                           " -no-shutdown -serial chardev:serial0 %s",
>> +                           test->machine, tmpname, test->extra);
>>
>>      qtest_start(args);
>>      unlink(tmpname);
>
> Applied to master, thanks. Let's see if this fixes the travis flapping...

A bit late as it is merged but I did test it on the reproduction case
and ran 50 check-qtest-s390x while loading the system with a kernel
compile. It previously failed after about 20 iterations. So:

Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée