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From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
To: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, gleb@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] clean root dir of all x86-ness
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:35:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017093509.GA2172@hawk.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131017010606.GG24837@cbox>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:06:06PM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > -The exit status of the binary (and the script) is inconsistent: with
> > -qemu-system, after the unittest is done, the exit status of qemu is 1,
> > -different from the 'old style' qemu-kvm, whose exit status in successful
> > -completion is 0.
> > +To create the tests' images do
> 
> tests' images doesn't read very nice, can we just say test images?

OK

> 
> > +  ./configure
> > +  make
> > +in this directory. Tests' images are created in ./<ARCH>/*.flat
> > +
> > +Then use the runner script to detect the correct invocation and
> > +invoke the test, e.g.
> > +  ./x86-run ./x86/msr.flat
> > +or
> > +  ./run_tests.sh
> > +to run them all.
> 
> While you're at it, it would be great to provide a little more context
> in the README file.
> 
> For example, we start talking abouter 'runner scripts', we refer to
> something called '.flat', and we refer to QEMU without explaining how
> this whole thing works, what the components are, what is required of
> QEMU etc.
> 
> I think that would be useful for the wider adoption of kvm-unit-tests to
> developers writing ad-hoc patches for KVM.
> 
> A reference to docs/testdev.txt from somewhere approrpriate in such text
> would probably also be useful...
> 
> I know much of this is arch-specific, but there must be something
> generic or common across the architecture, and that would in essense be
> capturing what 'kvm-unit-tests' give you, which I think is very useful
> to have in the readme.
> 

Agreed. I'll see what I can do with the overall documentation. And I need
to create an arm/README for arm specific documentation as well.

drew

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-14 16:23 [PATCH 0/9] kvm-unit-tests/arm: initial drop Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] remove unused files Andrew Jones
2013-10-16 12:52   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-16 13:13     ` Alexander Graf
2013-10-16 13:18     ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/9] makefile and run_tests tweaks Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/9] clean root dir of all x86-ness Andrew Jones
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17  9:35     ` Andrew Jones [this message]
2013-10-17 19:01       ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-20 16:37         ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/9] Introduce a simple iomap structure Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 5/9] Add halt() and some error codes Andrew Jones
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 6/9] Introduce virtio-testdev Andrew Jones
2013-10-15  8:39   ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17  9:51     ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17 19:01       ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 7/9] arm: replace arbitrary divisions Andrew Jones
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17 10:03     ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17 18:59       ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 8/9] arm: initial drop Andrew Jones
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17 10:16     ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17 13:28       ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17 18:39         ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-14 16:23 ` [PATCH 9/9] arm: add vectors support Andrew Jones
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-17 10:38     ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-17 18:58       ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-20 16:35         ` Andrew Jones
2013-10-21  9:59           ` Christoffer Dall
2013-11-20 23:06 ` [PATCH 0/9] kvm-unit-tests/arm: initial drop María Soler Heredia
2013-11-26 17:23   ` Andrew Jones
2013-12-29  9:24 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-01-02 18:56   ` Andrew Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-04 16:42 [PATCH 0/9 v2] " Andrew Jones
2013-12-04 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/9] clean root dir of all x86-ness Andrew Jones
2013-12-29  6:30   ` Christoffer Dall
2014-01-02 15:00     ` Andrew Jones
2014-01-02 17:16       ` Christoffer Dall

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