> Thanks for caring, but it would be better to explicitly skip the test if it > is not running on bare-metal. For instance, I missed this thread and needed > to check why the test fails on bare-metal... > > Besides, it seems that v6 was used and not v7, so the error messages are > strange: > > Test suite: atomic_switch_overflow_msrs_test > FAIL: exit_reason, 18, is 2147483682. > FAIL: exit_qual, 0, is 513. > SUMMARY: 11 tests, 2 unexpected failures > > I also think that printing the exit-reason in hex format would be more > readable. Exit reasons are enumerated in decimal rather than hex in the SDM (volume 3, appendix C). To be clear, are you saying you "opted in" to the test on bare metal, and got confused when it failed? Or, are you saying that our patch on unittest.cfg to make the test not run by default didn't work?
