Re: [PATCH v2 00/43] testing and plugin updates for 9.0 (pre-PR)

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

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> This brings in the first batch of testing updates for the next
> release. The main bulk of these is Daniel and Thomas' cleanups of the
> qtest timeouts and allowing meson control them. There are a few minor
> tweaks I've made to some avocado and gitlab tests.
>
> The big update is support for reading register values in TCG plugins.
> After feedback from Akihiko I've left all the smarts to the plugin and
> made the interface a simple "all the registers" dump. There is a
> follow on patch to make the register code a little more efficient by
> checking disassembly. However we can leave the door open for future
> API enhancements if the translator ever learns to reliably know when
> registers might be touched.
>
> v2
> --
>
>  - Review feedback for register API
>  - readthedocs update
>  - add expectation docs for plugins
>
> The following still need review:
>
>   docs/devel: document some plugin assumptions
>   docs/devel: lift example and plugin API sections up
>   contrib/plugins: optimise the register value tracking
>   contrib/plugins: extend execlog to track register changes
>   contrib/plugins: fix imatch
>   plugins: add an API to read registers
>   gdbstub: expose api to find registers
>   readthodocs: fully specify a build environment
>   gitlab: include microblazeel in testing
>   tests/avocado: use snapshot=on in kvm_xen_guest

Ping for final review? I'd at least like to get the testing stuff
cleared out of my tree.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro