Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add a tester for HMP commands

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Thomas Huth (address@hidden) wrote:
> We currently do not test HMP commands automatically yet, so if they
> break, we do not notice this until somebody runs into the problem
> (like the "info qtree" problem that we recently had on qemu-system-ppc64).
> So let's add a simple tester that runs some HMP commands to check if they
> can crash or abort QEMU.
> 
> Note: Three boards are currently still blacklisted in the third patch.
> I've added the problems to our BiteSizeTasks wiki page, so I hope they
> will get fixed by GSoC students or somebody else soon. Once the problems
> are fixed, the blacklisting can be removed in the tester, too.

Queued

> Thomas Huth (3):
>   libqtest: Ignore QMP events when parsing the response for HMP commands
>   libqtest: Add a generic function to run a callback function for every
>     machine
>   tests: Add a tester for HMP commands
> 
>  tests/Makefile.include |   2 +
>  tests/libqtest.c       |  36 +++++++++++
>  tests/libqtest.h       |   8 +++
>  tests/pc-cpu-test.c    |  95 +++++++++++------------------
>  tests/qom-test.c       |  36 ++---------
>  tests/test-hmp.c       | 160 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-hmp.c
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK