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Re: [PATCH v1 24/28] tests/tcg/aarch64: add SVE iotcl test
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [PATCH v1 24/28] tests/tcg/aarch64: add SVE iotcl test |
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Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:57:24 +0000 |
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Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 10:45, Aleksandar Markovic
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I think it is also a little problematic that tests like this reside
>> and belong in tests/tcg - since they deal more with elements
>> of kernel interface (system call prctl()), rather than TCG.
>> Still, I see there are many other similar cases in tests/tcg,
>> so probably (at this moment) one should't bother about it in
>> the context of this patch. However, in general, the location
>> /tests/tcg for all these cases seems wrong to me.
>
> Well, the only reason we have the test at all is for testing
> our TCG emulation. Generic tests of syscalls don't live
> in QEMU at all, the best place for those would be the
> Linux Test Project's test suite.
Yeah it's all for exercising the TCG. I have run tests/tcg/aaarch64
binaries on real hardware from time to time but it's not the focus of
anything in that directory.
--
Alex Bennée
- [PATCH v1 13/28] target/i386: use gdb_get_reg helpers, (continued)
- [PATCH v1 13/28] target/i386: use gdb_get_reg helpers, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
- [PATCH v1 15/28] target/arm: prepare for multiple dynamic XMLs, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
- [PATCH v1 28/28] gdbstub: Fix single-step issue by confirming 'vContSupported+' feature to gdb, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
- [PATCH v1 14/28] gdbstub: extend GByteArray to read register helpers, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
- [PATCH v1 24/28] tests/tcg/aarch64: add SVE iotcl test, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
- Re: [PATCH v1 24/28] tests/tcg/aarch64: add SVE iotcl test, Aleksandar Markovic, 2020/03/17
[PATCH v1 17/28] target/arm: default SVE length to 64 bytes for linux-user, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
[PATCH v1 22/28] tests/guest-debug: add a simple test runner, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
[PATCH v1 18/28] target/arm: generate xml description of our SVE registers, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
[PATCH v1 21/28] configure: allow user to specify what gdb to use, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16
[PATCH v1 20/28] tests/tcg/aarch64: userspace system register test, Alex Bennée, 2020/03/16