Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc improvements

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 19/07/2026 15.00, Chinmay Rath wrote:
> This series aims to add a couple of new powerpc tests and improve the
> powerpc build structure.
> 
> This is originally Nick's work. The last version (v10) of which can be seen here :
> https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20240612052322.218726-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
> Couple of patches from the series are already merged.
> 
> Since it has been 2 years since this series was posted, I originally
> posted this as a RFC. This v1 series has changes accomodating the review comments
> received in the RFC :
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260602064806.3101025-1-rathc@linux.ibm.com/
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260708105122.1177210-1-rathc@linux.ibm.com/
> 
> I have rebased the patches to the upstream state.
> For the patches which did not require any changes in the existing upstream code,
> I have retained the "Reviewed-by"s and "Acked-by" (patch 3,5 & 6) from
> Nick's series. I have also added Andrew's "Reviewed-by" received on
> patch 2 in the RFC. Nick had originally introduced powernv tests as well.
> Removed it for now since it was causing CI failure in the current upstream.
> 
> Link to Gitlab tree with patches :
> https://gitlab.com/rathc/kvm-unit-tests/-/tree/ppc64
> Link to Gitlab pipeline :
> https://gitlab.com/rathc/kvm-unit-tests/-/pipelines/2688519679
> 
> Change log from RFC to v1:
> 1. Patch 2: Added Andrew's "Reviewed-by".
> 2. Patch 4: Removed usage of gitlab-ci group to run test - Thomas
>     It would be nice to make use of the gitlab-ci group, but doing the
>     change of all archs would make sense in a separate series. I look
>     forward to doing that.
> 3. Patch 6: Removed addition of panic test in gitlab-ci group - Thomas
> 
> There was a discussion on the build failing in Travis CI with Clang, in the
> RFC, which I have addressed there.
> 
> Change log from v1 to v2:
> Patch 4: Addressed all comments by Thomas :
> 1. Removed extra blank line.
> 2. Removed accel=kvm test from gitlab-ci.
> 3. smp = 2 preserved in atmoics test.
Thanks, looks fine now, so I pushed it to the repository.

  Thomas