From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932604AbcESQXj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 12:23:39 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:41435 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751760AbcESQXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 12:23:38 -0400 X-IBM-Helo: d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:23:39 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Josh Triplett Cc: Boqun Feng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Steven Rostedt , Mathieu Desnoyers , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option Message-ID: <20160519162339.GU3528@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1463629344-20471-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> <1463629344-20471-4-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> <20160519042309.GA18252@x> <20160519141013.GN3528@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160519154042.GA1049@jtriplet-mobl2.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160519154042.GA1049@jtriplet-mobl2.jf.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16051916-0017-0000-0000-00002F4E8412 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:40:42AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:10:13AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:23:10PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:42:23AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote: > > > > The option "-soundhw pcspk" gives me a error on PPC as follow: > > > > > > > > qemu-system-ppc64: ISA bus not available for pcspk > > > > > > > > , which means this option doesn't work on ppc by default. So simply make > > > > this an x86-specific option via identify_qemu_args(). > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng > > > > > > The emulated system for RCU testing does not need sound hardware at all. > > > Paul added this option in commit > > > 16c77ea7d0f4a74e49009aa2d26c275f7f93de7c to disable the default sound > > > hardware, saying that '"-soundhw pcspk" makes the script a bit less > > > dependent on odd audio libraries being installed'. Unfortunately, it > > > looks like there isn't a "-soundhw none". As far as I can tell, > > > currently the only way to completely eliminate sound hardware is to pass > > > "-nodefaults" and then explicitly specify each desired device; while > > > that would solve the issue, it would likely introduce *more* > > > hardware-specific command-line options... > > > > > > I've filed two feature requests on upstream qemu to make this simpler: > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1583420 and > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1583421 . > > > > > > Paul, what did you mean by "dependent on odd audio libraries"? Did you > > > mean in the guest or the host? And either way, is this something that > > > could potentially be solved another way? > > > > If I remember correctly, Ubuntu 14.04 qemu refused to run the guest > > without this option, but I don't recall the exact error message. > > I chalked it up to my ignorance of qemu, but I would very much welcome > > some way to not have to specify irrelevant hardware. So thank you very > > much for filing the bugs! > > According to qemu upstream, qemu doesn't enable any sound hardware by > default, so I can't think of any obvious reason why adding "-soundhw > pcspkr" would make the rcutorture VM boot. Did qemu refuse to run at > all, or did the VM start but fail during the boot process? > > Could you check if you can currently run without this option? If so, > perhaps we should just drop it for now. Will do! As soon as the current test completes. BTW, am I the only one getting "interesting" failures in the merge window? Thanx, Paul