Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] script for crash-testing -device

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:00:49PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This series adds scripts/device-crashtest.py, that can be used to
> crash-test -device with multiple machine/accel/device
> combinations.
> 
> The script found a few crashes on some machines/devices. A dump
> of existing cases can be seen here:
>   https://gist.github.com/ehabkost/503b0af0375f0d98d3e84017e8ca54eb
> 
> The script contains a whitelist that can also be useful as
> documentation of existing ways -device can fail or crash.
> 
> Note that the script takes a few hours to run on the default mode
> (testing all accel/machine/device combinations), but the "-r N"
> option can be used to make it only test N random samples.

Something I forgot to mention: I would like to run some subset of
these tests on "make check", but I don't know how we could choose
that subset. We could run, e.g., 100 random samples, but I am not
sure we really want to make "make check" non-deterministic.

Ideas?

-- 
Eduardo