Re: [PULL 00/31] Block layer patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 16:55, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 9a7beaad3dbba982f7a461d676b55a5c3851d312:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 
> 'remotes/alistair/tags/pull-riscv-to-apply-20210304' into staging (2021-03-05 
> 10:47:46 +0000)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   git://repo.or.cz/qemu/kevin.git tags/for-upstream
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 67bedc3aed5c455b629c2cb5f523b536c46adff9:
>
>   docs: qsd: Explain --export nbd,name=... default (2021-03-05 17:09:46 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Block layer patches:
>
> - qemu-storage-daemon: add --pidfile option
> - qemu-storage-daemon: CLI error messages include the option name now
> - vhost-user-blk export: Misc fixes, added test cases
> - docs: Improvements for qemu-storage-daemon documentation
> - parallels: load bitmap extension
> - backup-top: Don't crash on post-finalize accesses
> - iotests improvements

This failed some of the gitlab CI jobs, like this:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/1077335781

Running test qtest-x86_64/test-hmp
Running test qtest-x86_64/qos-test
qemu-storage-daemon: vu_panic: Not implemented: memfd support is missing
qemu-storage-daemon: vu_panic: Failed to alloc vhost inflight area
qemu-system-x86_64: Failed to write msg. Wrote -1 instead of 20.
qemu-system-x86_64: vhost_set_features failed: Invalid argument (22)
qemu-system-x86_64: Error starting vhost: 22
qemu-system-x86_64: vhost-user-blk: vhost start failed: Invalid argument
**
ERROR:../tests/qtest/libqos/virtio.c:228:qvirtio_wait_used_elem:
assertion failed: (g_get_monotonic_time() - start_time <= timeout_us)
ERROR qtest-x86_64/qos-test - Bail out!
ERROR:../tests/qtest/libqos/virtio.c:228:qvirtio_wait_used_elem:
assertion failed: (g_get_monotonic_time() - start_time <= timeout_us)
make: *** [run-test-159] Error 1

I guess some test or other is assuming the presence of
a host feature that isn't guaranteed to be there ?

thanks
-- PMM