Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 8/8] migration: add a migration selftest

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On Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM AEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 17/02/2024 08.19, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > On Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM AEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> On 09/02/2024 10.11, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >>> Add a selftest for migration support in  guest library and test harness
> >>> code. It performs migrations in a tight loop to irritate races and bugs
> >>> in the test harness code.
> >>>
> >>> Include the test in arm, s390, powerpc.
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (s390x)
> >>> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>    arm/Makefile.common          |  1 +
> >>>    arm/selftest-migration.c     |  1 +
> >>>    arm/unittests.cfg            |  6 ++++++
> >>
> >>    Hi Nicholas,
> >>
> >> I just gave the patches a try, but the arm test seems to fail for me: Only
> >> the first getchar() seems to wait for a character, all the subsequent ones
> >> don't wait anymore and just continue immediately ... is this working for
> >> you? Or do I need another patch on top?
> > 
> > Hey sorry missed this comment....
> > 
> > It does seem to work for me, I've mostly tested pseries but I did test
> > others too (that's how I saw the arm getchar limit).
> > 
> > How are you observing it not waiting for migration?
>
> According to you other mail, I think you figured it out already, but just 
> for the records: You can see it when running the guest manually, e.g. 
> something like:
>
>   qemu-system-aarch64 -nodefaults -machine virt -accel tcg -cpu cortex-a57 \
>     -device virtio-serial-device -device virtconsole,chardev=ctd \
>     -chardev testdev,id=ctd -device pci-testdev -display none \
>     -serial mon:stdio -kernel arm/selftest-migration.flat -smp 1
>
> Without my "lib/arm/io: Fix calling getchar() multiple times" patch, the 
> guest only waits during the first getchar(), all the others simply return 
> immediately.

Yeah I got it -- I re-ran it on arm and it is obvious since you told
me it's not waiting. At the time I tested I thought it was just arm
migrating really fast :D

Thanks,
Nick





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