Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] ci: Disable migration compatibility tests for aarch64

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 01:49:51PM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>> Until 9.0 is out, we need to keep the aarch64 job disabled because the
>> tests always use the n-1 version of migration-test. That happens to be
>> broken for aarch64 in 8.2. Once 9.0 is out, it will become the n-1
>> version and it will bring the fixed tests.
>> 
>> We can revert this patch when 9.0 releases.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
>> ---
>>  .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> index f0b0edc634..b344a4685f 100644
>> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
>> @@ -217,10 +217,14 @@ build-previous-qemu:
>>      - QTEST_QEMU_BINARY_DST=./qemu-system-${TARGET}
>>            QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=../build/qemu-system-${TARGET} ./tests/qtest/migration-test
>>  
>> +# This job is disabled until we release 9.0. The existing
>> +# migration-test in 8.2 is broken on aarch64. The fix was already
>> +# commited, but it will only take effect once 9.0 is out.
>>  migration-compat-aarch64:
>>    extends: .migration-compat-common
>>    variables:
>>      TARGET: aarch64
>> +    QEMU_JOB_OPTIONAL: 1
>
> Optionally you can move the whole migration-compat-aarch64 from previous
> patch to here, then even if someone kicks off CI for previous commit it
> won't fail.

I want to avoid having to think about this when 9.0 is out. This way
it'll be just a revert of this patch.

>
> Would QEMU_JOB_SKIPPED suits more here?
>
>         https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/ci.html
>
>         QEMU_JOB_OPTIONAL
>
>         The job is expected to be successful in general, but is not run by
>         default due to need to conserve limited CI resources. It is
>         available to be started manually by the contributor in the CI
>         pipelines UI.
>
>         QEMU_JOB_SKIPPED
>
>         The job is not reliably successsful in general, so is not currently
>         suitable to be run by default. Ideally this should be a temporary
>         marker until the problems can be addressed, or the job permanently
>         removed.
>
> I suppose they all fall into "manual trigger" as a result, but just in case
> it'll behave differently in the future.
>
Ok, we can use SKIPPED.

>>  
>>  migration-compat-x86_64:
>>    extends: .migration-compat-common
>> -- 
>> 2.35.3
>>