Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] riscv: Fix introspection problems

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 18.07.2018 23:31, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 12:22 AM, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 17.07.2018 22:27, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>> This is based on Thomas's work fixing introspection problems [1] and
>>> applied to the RISC-V port.
>>>
>>> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg03261.html
>>>
>>> Alistair Francis (5):
>>>   sifive_e: Fix crash when introspecting the device
>>>   sifive_u: Fix crash when introspecting the device
>>>   virt: Fix crash when introspecting the device
>>>   riscv_hart: Fix crash when introspecting the device
>>>   spike: Fix crash when introspecting the device
>>>
>>>  hw/riscv/riscv_hart.c |  7 +++----
>>>  hw/riscv/sifive_e.c   | 12 ++++++------
>>>  hw/riscv/sifive_u.c   | 15 +++++++--------
>>>  hw/riscv/spike.c      | 10 ++++------
>>>  hw/riscv/virt.c       |  5 ++---
>>>  5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>>
>> That's interesting, these issues did not appear in my tests (modified
>> tests/device-introspect-test.c with hmp("info qtree")). Likely because
>> device-introspect-test only checks with the "none" machine ==> one more
>> reason to test here with all machines, too (I suggested such a patch a
>> couple of months ago) ...
> 
> What happened to the patch? More tests would be super handy.

It was only a RFC since at that point in time, there were lots of other
crashes, so it could not be merged yet:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05033.html

I think the other crashes are now fixed, too, so we could consider this
again. I'll put it on my TODO list to respin it for 3.1 ...

 Thomas