[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Aurelien Jarno]

This has been fixed in commit d6e839e718c2540b880ac9d2d7a49fb7ade02cfb

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Richard Jones]

Thanks for the detailed test case and fix.  However unfortunately I cannot see
d6e839e718 in the current qemu git.  Is it possible the commit hash changed
because of a rebase when it was committed?

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Aurelien Jarno]

Oops sorry. The correct commit hash is
52ae646d4a3ebdcdcc973492c6a56f2c49b6578f

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Andreas Gustafsson]

Thank you.  Now if someone could also fix bug 1154328 , my automated
tests might run again...

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Richard Jones]

Thanks -  fix committed to Fedora.  Hopefully this will squash the rare
and random segfaults in the libguestfs test suite.

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Aurelien Jarno]

Anthony,

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:24:20PM -0000, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Thank you.  Now if someone could also fix bug 1154328 , my automated
> tests might run again...

This bug is indeed quite problematic and is caused by one of your
patches:

  commit a29753f8aa79a34a324afebe340182a51a5aef11
  Author: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
  Date:   Tue Mar 5 23:21:19 2013 +0530

      qemu-char: convert fd_chr to use a GIOChannel

      This uses the newly introduced IOWatchPoll source.

      Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
      Message-id: 0cb5d14510ee835a0ebc23676d10a2cce9280da5.1362505276.git.amit.shah@redhat.com
      Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Are you aware of the issue? Are you working on a fix?

Regards,
Aurelien

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Andreas Gustafsson]

Now that bug 1154328 has been fixed,  the NetBSD OS test suite
successfully starts, but it still does not work as expected; actually
things have gone from bad to worse.  Every test run since the 1154328
fix has either timed out after running only a fraction of the tests, or
has ended in a guest kernel panic.  For example, here is part of the
console output from a recent test run using qemu git revision
93b48c201eb6c0404d15550a0eaa3c0f7937e35e:

msdosfs_symlink_zerolen: [1.172395s] Skipped: symlinks not supported by file system
    nfs_access_simple: [9.423184s] Failed: child died
    nfs_attrs: fatal double fault in user mode
trap type 269 code 80000000 eip c010cca2 cs 8 eflags ed1fe cr2 b83fd834 ilevel 0
panic: trap
cpu0: Begin traceback...
printf_nolog(c0ba9e6b,c34adf7c,c34adf7c,c010cca2,8,ed1fe,b83fd834,0,0,0) at netbsd:printf_nolog
trap_tss() at netbsd:trap_tss
--- trap via task gate ---
b83ff74c:
cpu0: End traceback...

So either the supposed fix actually made things worse, or some unrelated
regression has been introduced while the tests were inoperable due to
bug 1154328.

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Andreas Gustafsson]

My tests are now working again.  The point in time when they started
working is consistent with this having been fixed by commit
38ebb396c955ceb2ef7e246248ceb7f8bfe1b774, "target-i386: ROR r8/r16 imm
instruction fix".  Many thanks to everyone involved in fixing it.

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1127369] Re: i386 emulation unreliable since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

[Aurelien Jarno]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  i386 emulation unreliable since commit
  b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I am running daily automated tests of the qemu git mainline that
  involve building qemu on a Linux host (32-bit), booting a NetBSD guest
  in qemu-system-i386, and running the NetBSD operating system test
  suite on the guest.

  Since commit b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699, there has been
  a marked increase in the number of failing test cases.  Before that
  commit, the number of failing test cases was typically in the range 3
  to 6, but since that commit, test runs often show 10 or more failed
  tests, or they end prematurely due to a segmentation fault in the test
  framework itself.

  To aid in reproducing the problem, I have prepared a disk image
  containing a NetBSD 6.0.1 system configured to automatically run
  the test suite on boot.

  To reproduce the problem, run the following shell commands:

    wget http://www.gson.org/bugs/qemu/NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    gunzip NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img.gz
    qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -nographic -snapshot -hda NetBSD-6.0.1-i386-test.img

  The disk image is about 144 MB in size and uncompresses to 2 GB.  The
  test run typically takes a couple of hours, printing progress messages
  to the terminal as it goes.  When it finishes, the virtual machine
  will be automatically powered down, causing qemu to exit.

  Near the end of the output, before the shutdown messages, there should
  be a summary of the test results.  The expected output looks like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2958 passed test cases.
        5 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        70 skipped test cases.

  A number of "failed test cases" in the range 3 to 6 should be
  considered normal.  Please ignore the "expected failed test cases".
  Using a version of qemu affected by the bug, the summary will look
  more like this:

    Summary for 500 test programs:
        2951 passed test cases.
        12 failed test cases.
        45 expected failed test cases.
        69 skipped test cases.

  Or it may end with a segmentation fault like this:

     p2k_ffs_race: atf-report: ERROR: 10912: Unexpected token `<<EOF>>'; expected end of test case or test case's stdout/stderr line
  [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) atf-run |
        Done(1)                 atf-report

  The problem goes away if the "-m 32" is omitted from the qemu command line,
  which leads me to suspect that the problem may be related to paging or
  swapping activity in the guest.

  The revision listed in the subject, b76f0d8c2e3eac94bc7fd90a510cb7426b2a2699,
  is the first one exhibiting the excessive test failures, but the bug may already
  have been introduced in the previous commit, fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd.
  If I attempt to run the test on fdbb84d1332ae0827d60f1a2ca03c7d5678c6edd, the
  guest fails to boot.  The revision before that, 32761257c0b9fa7ee04d2871a6e48a41f119c469,
  works as expected.
  --
  Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org

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