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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests/boot-serial-test: Fix problem with timeou
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests/boot-serial-test: Fix problem with timeout due to dropped characters |
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Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:10:23 +0100 |
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On 21.02.2018 12:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 16/02/2018 07:12, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Commit 92b540dac9fc3a5 introduce a counter to handle the timeouts in a
>> better way. But in case ccnt reaches 512, the current read character is
>> ignored - and if that character is part of the string that we are looking
>> for, the test fails to match the string.
>>
>> Almost all of the tests look for a string within the first 512 bytes of
>> firmware output, so the problem never triggered there. But the hppa test
>> that has been added recently looks for a longer string at the very end of
>> a long output, thus there's a chance that we miss a character there so
>> that the test fails unexpectedly. Fix it by *not* reading and dropping a
>> character if the counter reaches 512.
>>
>> Fixes: 92b540dac9fc3a572c7342edd0b073000f5a6abf
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> @Peter: Since this fixes the problem with running "make check", could
>> you maybe apply this directly to the master branch? Thanks, and sorry
>> for the inconvenience!
>>
>> tests/boot-serial-test.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/boot-serial-test.c b/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> index ea87a80..696f7a3 100644
>> --- a/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> +++ b/tests/boot-serial-test.c
>> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void check_guest_output(const testdef_t *test,
>> int fd)
>> /* Poll serial output... Wait at most 60 seconds */
>> for (i = 0; i < 6000; ++i) {
>> ccnt = 0;
>> - while ((nbr = read(fd, &ch, 1)) == 1 && ccnt++ < 512) {
>> + while (ccnt++ < 512 && (nbr = read(fd, &ch, 1)) == 1) {
>> if (ch == test->expect[pos]) {
>> pos += 1;
>> if (test->expect[pos] == '\0') {
>>
>
> Queued in the meanwhile, thanks.
Thanks, but Peter already applied it to fix the "make check" failures:
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=5e5432b766c424a5d1
Thomas