On 14.04.2016 18:43, Greg Harmon wrote: > 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. By the way, for x86, there is already such a mechanism specified, see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05600.html ... seems like it has just not been merged yet. 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
