Re: [PATCH] tests/qtest/sse-timer-test: Add watchdog reset to sse-timer test

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 13/12/2024 01.26, Nabih Estefan wrote:
>> Recent CDMSK Watchdog changes (eff9dc5660fad3a610171c56a5ec3fada245e519)
>> updated the CDMSK APB Watchdog to not free run out of reset. That led to
>> this test failing since it never triggers the watchdog to start running.
>> No watchdog running means that the timer and counter in the test cannot
>> start, leading to failures in the assert statements throughout the test.
>> Adding a reset and enable of the watchdog to the reset function solves
>> this problem by enabling the watchdog and thus letting the timer and
>> counter run as expected
>> 
>> Also renaming the reset_counter_and_timer function since it now also
>> affects the watchdog.
>> 
>> To reproduce the failure at HEAD:
>> ./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu
>> make -j check-report-qtest-arm.junit.xml
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nabih Estefan <nabihestefan@google.com>

I don't see any failure with the sse-timer-test on master
(83aaec1d5a). Is it supposed to be intermittent? Nabih, can you confirm
whether this is the same issue Thomas has seen?

> I think this fixes the problem that I was seeing on Travis-CI:
>
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2702

I did see this^ issue, however, with Philippe's series [1] (and this
patch doesn't fix it).

Here's a CI job with both series applied:
https://gitlab.com/farosas/qemu/-/jobs/8638126011

1- https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241211233727.98923-2-philmd@linaro.org