Re: [PATCH] tests/acceptance: Fix race conditions in s390x tests & skip fedora on gitlab-CI

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:32:44 +0000
Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:

> Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri,  8 Jan 2021 19:56:45 +0100
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> There was a race condition in the first test where there was already the
> >> "crw" output in the dmesg, but the "0.0.4711" entry has not been created
> >> in the /sys fs yet. Fix it by waiting until it is there.
> >> 
> >> The second test has even more problems on gitlab-CI. Even after adding some
> >> more synchronization points (that wait for some messages in the "dmesg"
> >> output to make sure that the modules got loaded correctly), there are still
> >> occasionally some hangs in this test when it is running in the gitlab-CI.
> >> So far I was unable to reproduce these hangs locally on my computer, so
> >> this issue might take a while to debug. Thus disable the 2nd test in the
> >> gitlab-CI until the problems are better understood and fixed.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  tests/acceptance/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
> >>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/tests/acceptance/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py b/tests/acceptance/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py
> >> index eccf26b262..4028c99afc 100644
> >> --- a/tests/acceptance/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py
> >> +++ b/tests/acceptance/machine_s390_ccw_virtio.py
> >> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> >>  import os
> >>  import tempfile
> >>  
> >> +from avocado import skipIf
> >>  from avocado_qemu import Test
> >>  from avocado_qemu import exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern
> >>  from avocado_qemu import wait_for_console_pattern
> >> @@ -133,8 +134,10 @@ class S390CCWVirtioMachine(Test):
> >>          self.vm.command('device_add', driver='virtio-net-ccw',
> >>                          devno='fe.0.4711', id='net_4711')
> >>          self.wait_for_crw_reports()
> >> -        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'ls /sys/bus/ccw/devices/',
> >> -                                          '0.0.4711')
> >> +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ; do '
> >> +                    'if [ -e /sys/bus/ccw/devices/*4711 ]; then break; fi ;'
> >> +                    'sleep 1 ; done ; ls /sys/bus/ccw/devices/',
> >> +                    '0.0.4711')  
> >
> > I'm wondering whether we should introduce a generic helper function for
> > "execute command repeatedly, if the expected result did not yet show
> > up", or "wait for a file/directory to exist". It's probably not
> > uncommon for a desired outcome to arrive asynchronously, and having a
> > function for waiting/retrying could be handy.  
> 
> We don't really want to encourage fragile shell scripts in the guest so
> something that makes it easy to encode these loops in python. Currently
> the _console_interaction helper fails the test if failure_message is
> seen so I guess we need a slightly more liberal interaction which
> accepts a command can fail so we can write something like:
> 
>   while True:
>       if exec_command_and_check(self, "stat -t /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.4711",
>                                 "/sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.4711"):
>           break
> 
> ?

Yes, something like that. The caller can decide whether they want to
limit retries.

> 
> >  
> >>          # and detach it again
> >>          self.clear_guest_dmesg()
> >>          self.vm.command('device_del', id='net_4711')  
> 
>