Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 7/7] selftests/nolibc: use EFI -bios for LoongArch qemu

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit bdeeeaba83682225a7bf5f100fe8652a59590d33 ]
>
> qemu for LoongArch does not work properly with direct kernel boot.
> The kernel will panic during initialization and hang without any output.
>
> When booting in EFI mode everything work correctly.
>
> While users most likely don't have the LoongArch EFI binary installed at
> least an explicit error about 'file not found' is better than a hanging
> test without output that can never succeed.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/1738d60a-df3a-4102-b1da-d16a29b6e06a@xxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231031-nolibc-out-of-tree-v1-1-47c92f73590a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)




This backport makes me upset.

The original commit, bdeeeaba83682225a7bf5f100fe8652a59590d33,
changed tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.


However, this backport changes the top Makefile.


What is happening in the back-port logic?
















> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 500edb9d9f15..33d118fbb432 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -584,6 +584,13 @@ ifdef config-build
>  # *config targets only - make sure prerequisites are updated, and descend
>  # in scripts/kconfig to make the *config target
>
> +QEMU_BIOS_DIR = /usr/share/edk2/
> +QEMU_BIOS_loongarch = $(QEMU_BIOS_DIR)/loongarch64/OVMF_CODE.fd
> +
> +ifneq ($(QEMU_BIOS_$(XARCH)),)
> +QEMU_ARGS_BIOS = -bios $(QEMU_BIOS_$(XARCH))
> +endif
> +
>  # Read arch specific Makefile to set KBUILD_DEFCONFIG as needed.
>  # KBUILD_DEFCONFIG may point out an alternative default configuration
>  # used for 'make defconfig'
> @@ -1375,7 +1382,7 @@ _modinst_:
>         @sed 's:^:kernel/:' modules.order > $(MODLIB)/modules.order
>         @sed 's:^:kernel/:' modules.builtin > $(MODLIB)/modules.builtin
>         @cp -f $(objtree)/modules.builtin.modinfo $(MODLIB)/
> -       $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
> +       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(QEMU_ARGS_BIOS) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst
>
>  # This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
>  # boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write.  However the
> --
> 2.43.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada





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