Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/7] ppc-for-2.10 queue 20170822

[Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>]

On 22/08/2017 11:34, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 August 2017 at 05:24, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>> The following changes since commit 1f296733876434118fd766cfef5eb6f29ecab6a8:
>>
>>   Update version for v2.10.0-rc3 release (2017-08-15 18:53:31 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-2.10-20170822
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to d3234e2851f1630c695c681beac1e87ac0881260:
>>
>>   hw/ppc/spapr_iommu: Fix crash when removing the "spapr-tce-table" device (2017-08-22 11:11:30 +1000)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> ppc patch queue 2017-08-22
>>
>> Last minute ppc related fixes for qemu-2.10.  I'm not sure if these
>> are critical enough to prompt another rc, but I'm submitting them for
>> consideration.
>>
>> First, is Cornelia's fix for 480bc11e6 which meant "make check" would
>> always fail on a ppc host.  Tracking that down delayed submission of
>> the rest of these patches, sorry.
>>
>> The rest are all fairly important bugfixes for qemu crashes or guest
>> behaviour regression on ppc.  Patches 2-4 specifically are fixes for
>> regressions from qemu-2.9, caused by the compatibility mode and
>> hotplug handling cleanups for the pseries machine type.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I get a make check failure on ppc64 Linux:
> 
> TEST: tests/postcopy-test... (pid=12468)
>   /ppc64/postcopy:
> Broken pipe
> qemu-system-ppc64: RP: Received invalid message 0x0000 length 0x0000
> FAIL
> GTester: last random seed: R02Se5468e06f561627824306d95b0566d2b
> (pid=13011)
> FAIL: tests/postcopy-test

This test should fail with KVM PR, but it is explicitly disabled by:

tests/postcopy-test.c:

386         accel = access("/sys/module/kvm_hv", F_OK) ? "tcg" : "kvm:tcg";

What is your test machine?

[CC' Greg]
Thanks,
Laurent