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Iglesias" , Eduardo Habkost , Pierrick Bouvier , qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, Alistair Francis Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/43] testing and plugin updates for 9.0 (pre-PR) In-Reply-To: <20240103173349.398526-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> ("Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e=22's?= message of "Wed, 3 Jan 2024 17:33:06 +0000") References: <20240103173349.398526-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> User-Agent: mu4e 1.11.27; emacs 29.1 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:37:28 +0000 Message-ID: <87cyu8f3lj.fsf@draig.linaro.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alex Benn=C3=A9e 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=3Don in kvm_xen_guest Ping for final review? I'd at least like to get the testing stuff cleared out of my tree. --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro