On 12.04.2016 23:32, Greg Harmon wrote: > David Gibson <dgibson <at> redhat.com> writes: >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:23:46 +0200 >> Thomas Huth <thuth <at> redhat.com> wrote: >>> On 11.04.2016 03:55, David Gibson wrote: >>>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:35:29 +0200 >>>> Thomas Huth <thuth <at> redhat.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This test can be used to check whether the SPR (special purpose >>>>> registers) of the PowerPC CPU are migrated right. It first fills >>>>> the various SPRs with some non-zero value, then reads the values >>>>> back into a first array, then waits for a key (with the '-w' option) >>>>> so that it is possible to migrate the VM, and finally reads the >>>>> values from the SPRs back into another array and then compares it >>>>> with the initial values. > > Hi, > In order to make this test automated, what if we extend the test device to > return a save/restore generation number? It can report that in a > register,and then the test can spin, waiting for that value to increase. The test device only works on x86, as far as I know, so I'm afraid it's not usable for this case here on PowerPC. Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
