From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] .travis.yml: reduce the load on [ppc64] GCC check-tcg
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 10:40:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200505004023.GE13695@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1vz5vmp.fsf@linaro.org>
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On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:48:46PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
> Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:
>
> > On 5/3/20 7:10 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> >>>>> - TEST_CMD="make check check-tcg V=1"
> >>>>> - - CONFIG="--disable-containers --target-list=${MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS},ppc64le-linux-user"
> >>>>> + - CONFIG="--disable-containers --target-list=ppc64-softmmu,ppc64le-linux-user"
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc'ing David, since I'm not sure about this one... Maybe split as we
> >>>> did with other jobs?
> > ...
> >> Hrm. I'd prefer not to drop this coverage if we can avoid it. What
> >> we're not testing with the proposed patch is TCG generation for a ppc
> >> host but a non-ppc target. e.g. if the x86 or ARM target side generates
> >> some pattern of TCG ops that's very rare for the ppc target, and is
> >> buggy in the ppc host side.
> >
> > Are we actually testing those here? As far as I can see, we're not installing
> > any cross-compilers here, so we're not building any non-ppc binaries. Nor are
> > we running check-acceptance which would download pre-built foreign
> > binaries.
>
> We are testing the very minimal boot stubs that each -system binary has
> in qtest but they are hardly going to be exercising the majority of the
> TCG. Basically the $SELF-linux-user is going to be exercising more of
> the TCG than anything else.
Oh, good points.
Go ahead then. In fact we should probably do that for all the
check-tcg builds that don't install cross compilers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 11:15 [PATCH v1 0/4] testing/next updates Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 11:15 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] .travis.yml: show free disk space at end of run Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 12:18 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-01 11:15 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] .travis.yml: drop MacOSX Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 11:21 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-01 15:03 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-04 19:50 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 12:19 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-01 14:25 ` Richard Henderson
2020-05-01 11:15 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] .cirrus.yml: bump FreeBSD to the current stable release Alex Bennée
2020-05-04 10:26 ` Li-Wen Hsu
2020-05-06 8:16 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 11:15 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] .travis.yml: reduce the load on [ppc64] GCC check-tcg Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 12:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-01 12:58 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-04 2:10 ` David Gibson
2020-05-04 17:39 ` Richard Henderson
2020-05-04 19:48 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-05 0:40 ` David Gibson [this message]
2020-05-01 14:30 ` Richard Henderson
2020-05-01 11:23 ` [PATCH v1 0/4] testing/next updates Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-01 11:34 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-01 12:22 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-01 11:36 ` no-reply
2020-05-01 13:11 ` no-reply
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