From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in FEP support
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804120358.GH32096@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9847c13-6c3a-a347-046d-619f78b3d46b@citrix.com>
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 04/08/16 12:46, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Wei Liu writes ("[OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in FEP support"):
> >> By default FEP depends on debug flag. When we are near release the debug
> >> flag will be turned off. In order to test a release build, we explicitly
> >> enable FEP in build configuration.
> >>
> >> Since we target Xen versions that already have Kconfig support, only a
> >> Kconfig option is created for now.
> > What do you mean by "we target" ? osstest needs to support all
> > versions of Xen which are still in security support, which goes back
> > to 4.4 right now.
>
> Xen 4.8 will have CONFIG_HVM_FEP available, and the hvm_fep command line
> option is available irrespective of whether it is a debug build of the
> hypervisor.
>
> Xen 4.5-4.7 have hvm_fep available on the command line, strictly for
> debug builds of Xen only.
>
> Older versions have no FEP support at all.
>
>
> XTF tests which require FEP to function will probe and SKIP if support
> is not available. This does mean that some tests can only sensibly work
> against newer hypervisors.
>
In that case I think I would just abolish the fep test? Currently if
hypervisor doesn't support fep, the whole job is aborted.
> ~Andrew
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 8:45 [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 00/14] Integrate XTF into OSSTest Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 01/14] ts-xen-build: always compile in FEP support Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:46 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 11:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 12:03 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-08-04 13:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 14:03 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 14:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 15:22 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 15:26 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 15:36 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 02/14] TestSupport: factor out target_jobdir_subdir Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:47 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 03/14] DO NOT APPLY ts-leak-check: sleep 5 seconds before collecting stuff Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 04/14] ap-common: add xtf tree Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:49 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 13:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 15:21 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 15:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 16:13 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 18:20 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 14:06 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 05/14] DO NOT APPLY point xtf to my personal tree Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 06/14] Introduce ts-xtf-build Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:52 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 11:57 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 15:04 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 15:17 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 06/14] Introduce ts-xtf-build [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 15:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 16:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 18:10 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-04 18:12 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 07/14] sg-run-job: create xtf build recipe Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:53 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 08/14] Introduce ts-xtf-install Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:54 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 11:58 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 09/14] mfi-common: create xtf build job for 4.8 onwards Wei Liu
2016-08-04 11:59 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 14:12 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 10/14] Introduce ts-xtf-fep Wei Liu
2016-08-04 12:00 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 12:03 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 11/14] Introduce ts-xtf-run Wei Liu
2016-08-04 12:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 14:40 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-04 15:31 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 12/14] sg-run-job: test-xtf recipe Wei Liu
2016-08-04 12:20 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:45 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 13/14] make-flight: create 5 xtf jobs Wei Liu
2016-08-04 12:24 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-04 8:46 ` [OSSTEST PATCH RFC 14/14] Create XTF branch Wei Liu
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