Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py: mark aarch64 and pseries as not flaky

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

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> writes:

> These seem to be quite solid, including on several gitlab CI runs.
> Enabling them should help catch breakage in future.
>
> And update the powernv comment -- gitlab isn't the problem, there are
> known gaps in implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

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

> ---
>  tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py | 9 +--------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py b/tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py
> index 92855a02a5..8fe76ff921 100644
> --- a/tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py
> +++ b/tests/avocado/reverse_debugging.py
> @@ -223,9 +223,6 @@ class ReverseDebugging_AArch64(ReverseDebugging):
>  
>      REG_PC = 32
>  
> -    # unidentified gitlab timeout problem
> -    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'Test is unstable on GitLab')
> -
>      def test_aarch64_virt(self):
>          """
>          :avocado: tags=arch:aarch64
> @@ -248,14 +245,10 @@ class ReverseDebugging_ppc64(ReverseDebugging):
>  
>      REG_PC = 0x40
>  
> -    # unidentified gitlab timeout problem
> -    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'Test is unstable on GitLab')
> -
>      def test_ppc64_pseries(self):
>          """
>          :avocado: tags=arch:ppc64
>          :avocado: tags=machine:pseries
> -        :avocado: tags=flaky
>          """
>          # SLOF branches back to its entry point, which causes this test
>          # to take the 'hit a breakpoint again' path. That's not a problem,
> @@ -264,7 +257,7 @@ def test_ppc64_pseries(self):
>          self.reverse_debugging()
>  
>      # See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1992
> -    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'Test is unstable on GitLab')
> +    @skipUnless(os.getenv('QEMU_TEST_FLAKY_TESTS'), 'powernv migration support is incomplete so rr debugging is flaky')
>  
>      def test_ppc64_powernv(self):
>          """

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro