Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Enable more iotests during "make check-block"

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

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> As discussed here:
>
>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-10/msg00697.html
>
> and here:
>
>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-10/msg01388.html

Queued to testing/next, thanks.

>
> it would be good to have some more valuable iotests enabled in the
> "auto" group to get better iotest coverage during "make check".
>
> And once Max' "iotests: Add and use $SOCK_DIR" patch series has been
> merged, we can indeed enable these Python-based tests, too.
>
> There is just one small downside: Since these tests require a QEMU
> that features a 'virtio-blk' device, we cannot run the iotests
> with binaries like qemu-system-tricore anymore. But since the iotests
> were not very useful with such binaries anyway, I think it's ok now
> if we skip them there.
>
> I've also added a patch that removes test 130 from the "auto" group
> instead. Test 130 has been reported to fail intermittently, so we
> should not use it in "make check" block until it is fixed.
>
> Based-on: 20191010152457.17713-1-mreitz@redhat.com
>
> v3:
>  - Test 183 fails on Patchew, so I removed it from the "auto" group
>    again
>
> v2:
>  - Checked the iotests with NetBSD, too (now that Eduardo has
>    re-activated Gerd's patches for creating NetBSD VM images)
>  - Use 'openbsd' instead of 'openbsd6'
>  - Use 'grep -q' instead of 'grep' for grep'ing silently
>  - Added the patch to disable 130 from the "auto" group
>
> John Snow (1):
>   iotests: remove 'linux' from default supported platforms
>
> Thomas Huth (5):
>   iotests: Test 041 only works on certain systems
>   iotests: Test 183 does not work on macOS and OpenBSD
>   iotests: Skip "make check-block" if QEMU does not support virtio-blk
>   iotests: Enable more tests in the 'auto' group to improve test
>     coverage
>   iotests: Remove 130 from the "auto" group
>
>  tests/check-block.sh          | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/041        |  3 ++-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/183        |  1 +
>  tests/qemu-iotests/group      | 18 +++++++++---------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  5 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)


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Alex Bennée