Hi Drew, On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 02:16:32PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > Hi Drew, > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:07:16AM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote: > > > > > > I've started working on the next iteration of the kvmtool test > > > runner support series, I'll do my best to make sure kvmtool wll be able to run > > > the tests when kvm-unit-tests has been configured with --arch=arm. > > > > > > > Excellent! > > > > BTW, I went ahead an pushed a patch to misc/queue to improve the initrd > > address stuff > > > > https://gitlab.com/rhdrjones/kvm-unit-tests/-/commit/6f8f74ed2d9953830a3c74669f25439d9ad68dec > > > > It may be necessary for you if kvmtool shares its fdt creation between > > aarch64 and aarch32 guests, emitting 8 byte initrd addresses for both, > > even though the aarch32 guest puts the fdt below 4G. > > While trying your patch (it works, but with the caveat below), I remembered that > kvmtool is not able to run kvm-unit-tests for arm. That's because the code is > not relocatable (like it is for arm64) and the text address is hardcoded in the > makefile. > > In past, to run the arm tests with kvmtool, I was doing this change: > > diff --git a/arm/Makefile.arm b/arm/Makefile.arm > index 3a4cc6b26234..6c580b067413 100644 > --- a/arm/Makefile.arm > +++ b/arm/Makefile.arm > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ CFLAGS += $(machine) > CFLAGS += -mcpu=$(PROCESSOR) > CFLAGS += -mno-unaligned-access > > -arch_LDFLAGS = -Ttext=40010000 > +arch_LDFLAGS = -Ttext=80008000 > > define arch_elf_check = > endef > > Any suggestions how to fix that? One way would be to change the LDFLAGS based on > $TARGET. Another way would be to make the arm tests relocatable, I tried to do > that in the past but I couldn't make any progress. > > Separate from that, I also tried to run the 32 bit arm tests with run_tests.sh. > The runner uses qemu-system-arm (because $ARCH_NAME is arm in > scripts/arch-run.bash::search_qemu_binary()), but uses kvm as the accelerator > (because /dev/kvm exists in scrips/arch-run.bash::kvm_available()). This fails > with the error: > > qemu-system-arm: -accel kvm: invalid accelerator kvm > > I don't think that's supposed to happen, as kvm_available() specifically returns > true if $HOST = aarch64 and $ARCH = arm. Any suggestions? I managed to run the arm tests on an arm64 machine using qemu-system-aarch64 (instead of qemu-system-arm) and passing -cpu host,aarch64=off. I'll try to make this into a patch. Thanks, Alex > > Thanks, > Alex > > > > > Thanks, > > drew > >
