On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That's too bad that test device doesn't run on PowerPC. I'll try to send a patch sometime to add this type of register to the test device. Thanks, Greg > > 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
