Re: [PULL 00/53] Misc patches for QEMU 5.1 soft freeze

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 7/7/20 8:37 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 17:48, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The following changes since commit fc1bff958998910ec8d25db86cd2f53ff125f7ab:
>>
>>   hw/misc/pca9552: Add missing TypeInfo::class_size field (2020-06-29 
>> 21:16:10 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>   git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 80270507070ec73ea82741ce24cb7909a9258ea3:
>>
>>   scripts: improve message when TAP based tests fail (2020-07-06 12:14:25 
>> -0400)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> * Make checkpatch say 'qemu' instead of 'kernel' (Aleksandar)
>> * Fix PSE guests with emulated NPT (Alexander B. #1)
>> * Fix leak (Alexander B. #2)
>> * HVF fixes (Roman, Cameron)
>> * New Sapphire Rapids CPUID bits (Cathy)
>> * cpus.c and softmmu/ cleanups (Claudio)
>> * TAP driver tweaks (Daniel, Havard)
>> * object-add bugfix and testcases (Eric A.)
>> * Fix Coverity MIN_CONST and MAX_CONST (Eric B.)
>> * SSE fixes (Joseph)
>> * "-msg guest-name" option (Mario)
>> * support for AMD nested live migration (myself)
>> * Small i386 TCG fixes (myself)
>> * improved error reporting for Xen (myself)
>> * fix "-cpu host -overcommit cpu-pm=on" (myself)
>> * Add accel/Kconfig (Philippe)
>> * KVM API cleanup (Philippe)
>> * iscsi sense handling fixes (Yongji)
>> * Misc bugfixes
> 
> Hi; various build or test failures (5 total):

> 2) aarch64 and aarch32 linux:
> 
> /home/pm/qemu/target/arm/kvm.c: In function ‘kvm_arch_init’:
> /home/pm/qemu/target/arm/kvm.c:248:29: error: passing argument 1 of
> ‘kvm_check_extension’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
>  [-Werror=int-conversion]
>   248 |     if (kvm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER)) {
>       |                             ^
>       |                             |
>       |                             KVMState * {aka struct KVMState *}

I was sure I tested that on ARM hosts, so I double checked and
this code is new, merged last Saturday in 1711bfa5f5 ("target/arm: kvm:
Handle misconfigured dabt injection"), so an unfortunate merge race
problem.

> 3) PPC64 had a failure on iotest 030 (though I think this may
> be an intermittent in master):
> 
>   TEST    iotest-qcow2: 030 [fail]
[...]
> +AssertionError: failed path traversal for "return" in "{'error':
> {'class': 'DeviceNotActive', 'desc': "Block job 'stream-node8' not
> found"}}"

So this is now more intermittent, and this has been reported on:
- Linux/x86
- FreeBSD/x86
- Linux/ppc64