Re: [PATCH 1/6] automation: remove CR characters from QEMU serial

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 05:05:28PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2023, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > The gitlab CI webpage seems to have issues displaying the \CR\CR\LF "\r\r\n"
> > sequence on the web interface used as line returns by the Linux kernel serial
> > output.  This leads to the QEMU tests output looking like:
> > 
> > (XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings)
> > (XEN) *** Serial input to DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input)
> > (XEN) Freed 664kB init memory
> > mapping kernel into physical memory
> > about to get started...
> > qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 52 (timeout)
> > 
> > This not helpful, so strip the CR characters from the output that goes to
> > stdout, leaving the output in the smoke.serial untouched.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3030a73bf849 ('automation: add a QEMU based x86_64 Dom0/DomU test')
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> 
> Thanks for the patch. Let me see if I understood correctly.
> 
> In the gitlab web UI everything after the last (XEN) log line
> disappears, for instance:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/jobs/5556551478
> 
> (XEN) d1v0: vGICD: unhandled word write 0x000000ffffffff to ICACTIVER0
> / # qemu-system-aarch64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 145 (timeout)
> 
> 
> While if I look at the full logs there are plenty of Linux kernel logs
> after it:
> https://cdn.artifacts.gitlab-static.net/ec/ad/ecad5145a0ec1eb179fd47d1590d5ec43d705e8af2f9a816607ac31891cb82b9/2023_11_16/5556551478/6032156805/job.log?response-content-type=text%2Fplain%3B%20charset%3Dutf-8&response-content-disposition=inline&Expires=1700183635&KeyName=gprd-artifacts-cdn&Signature=vT8CBwI2Th23OvRvQKvNPgHiT5Y=
> 
> And this patch aims at fixing that, is that correct?
> 
> 
> But I went to check your pipeline
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/royger/xen/-/pipelines/1074512137
> and the corresponding job
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/royger/xen/-/jobs/5549620441 has
> the same issue?

I made the change just for qemu-alpine-x86_64-gcc:

https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/royger/xen/-/jobs/5550049674

I didn't realize qemu-smoke-dom0-arm64-gcc was also using it.  If the
fix is acceptable I can submit v2 adding the arm instances also.

Thanks, Roger.