Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/74] linux-user: Split do_syscall

[Aleksandar Markovic]

On May 20, 2019 11:43 AM, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 19 May 2019 at 21:39, Richard Henderson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Based-on: <address@hidden>
> > Aka "linux-user: path, clone, sparc, shmat fixes"
> >
> > Version 6 was
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg04794.html
> >
> > Since v5, I've fixed the ioctl failure that Laurent found, and
> > have done a few more syscalls.
> >
> > I've tried to do more testing with LTP, but it's a really annoying
> > testsuite.  There are at least 3 tests that hang forever (before
> > and after this patch set), and the host kernel's OOM handler kills
> > my login session, ending the test run.  This seems to be different
> > behaviour than I was seeing in January, when I did have test runs
> > that completed successfully.
>
> If these are different from the ones we're already skipping
> in the skiplist documented at https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/LTP
> we should update that wiki page to also skip these new
> hanging-tests (and whatever it is that eats all the memory).
>

Peter, yes, it is definitely different. It has been a moving target lately.
May I suggest that we use a stable version of QEMU, and a stable version of
LTP, and create a skiplist for such stable configuration, include it in the
docs, explicitely noting used versions? We can continue doing that for each
QEMU release and whatever the latest LTP would be at the moment of that
QEMU release (maybe even keeping the previous skiplists - which could be
useful for debugging).

Regards,
Aleksandar

> thanks
> -- PMM
>