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