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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] rtc01: add workaround for broken CMOS RTC on Microsoft Hyper-V cloud
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:34:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTsYqBJP8oWiuEGQ@yuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909163326.42598-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>

Hi!
> rtc01 fails on missed alarm on multiple different Azure instances if the
> alarm is set for the next minute:
> 
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : RTC READ TEST:
>   rtc01 1 TPASS : RTC READ TEST Passed
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Current RTC date/time is 11-6-2021, 09:00:58.
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : RTC ALARM TEST :
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Alarm time set to 09:01:03.
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Waiting 5 seconds for the alarm...
>   rtc01 2 TFAIL : rtc01.c:151: Timed out waiting for the alarm
> 
> Reproduced easily with rtcwake:
> 
>   $ rtcwake -d rtc0 -m on -s 50 -v
> 
> If alarm is set for now+60 seconds, it works fine.  Clearly Microsoft
> Hyper-V cloud instances have a broken CMOS RTC which unfortunately
> cannot be easily fixed.  Adding simple workaround to extend the time to
> 60 seconds allows to avoid false positives in expense of longer testing
> time.

I do not think that adding workarounds for a broken platforms into
testcases is a right thing to do.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] rtc01: add workaround for broken CMOS RTC on Microsoft Hyper-V cloud
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:34:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTsYqBJP8oWiuEGQ@yuki> (raw)
Message-ID: <20210910083448.iOh5QWBbFFXD3SctbysNjTJ2StCNtqmbsmvIgihlyQA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210909163326.42598-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>

Hi!
> rtc01 fails on missed alarm on multiple different Azure instances if the
> alarm is set for the next minute:
> 
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : RTC READ TEST:
>   rtc01 1 TPASS : RTC READ TEST Passed
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Current RTC date/time is 11-6-2021, 09:00:58.
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : RTC ALARM TEST :
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Alarm time set to 09:01:03.
>   rtc01 0 TINFO : Waiting 5 seconds for the alarm...
>   rtc01 2 TFAIL : rtc01.c:151: Timed out waiting for the alarm
> 
> Reproduced easily with rtcwake:
> 
>   $ rtcwake -d rtc0 -m on -s 50 -v
> 
> If alarm is set for now+60 seconds, it works fine.  Clearly Microsoft
> Hyper-V cloud instances have a broken CMOS RTC which unfortunately
> cannot be easily fixed.  Adding simple workaround to extend the time to
> 60 seconds allows to avoid false positives in expense of longer testing
> time.

I do not think that adding workarounds for a broken platforms into
testcases is a right thing to do.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-09 16:33 [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] rtc01: add space to beginning of comments Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-09 16:33 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-09 16:33 ` [LTP] [PATCH 2/2] rtc01: add workaround for broken CMOS RTC on Microsoft Hyper-V cloud Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-09 16:33   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-10  8:34   ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2021-09-10  8:34     ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-10  8:35     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-10  8:35       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-10 11:03       ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2021-09-10 11:03         ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2021-09-10  9:14 ` [LTP] [PATCH 1/2] rtc01: add space to beginning of comments Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-10  9:14   ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-09-10 12:46   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-09-10 12:46     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski

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