Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests/device-introspect: Test devices with all machines, not only with "none"

[Markus Armbruster]

Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 05:20:25PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 26.04.2018 13:45, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> > Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:
>> [...]
>> >> @@ -260,6 +263,26 @@ static void test_abstract_interfaces(void)
>> >>      qtest_end();
>> >>  }
>> >>  
>> >> +static void add_machine_test_case(const char *mname)
>> >> +{
>> >> +    char *path, *args;
>> >> +
>> >> +    /* Ignore blacklisted machines */
>> >> +    if (g_str_equal("xenfv", mname) || g_str_equal("xenpv", mname)) {
>> >> +        return;
>> >> +    }
>> >> +
>> >> +    path = g_strdup_printf("device/introspect/concrete-defaults-%s", 
>> >> mname);
>> >> +    args = g_strdup_printf("-machine %s", mname);
>> >> +    qtest_add_data_func(path, args, test_device_intro_concrete);
>> > 
>> > This runs test_device_intro_concrete() with "-machine M" for all machine
>> > types M, in SPEED=slow mode.
>> > 
>> >> +    g_free(path);
>> >> +
>> >> +    path = g_strdup_printf("device/introspect/concrete-nodefaults-%s", 
>> >> mname);
>> >> +    args = g_strdup_printf("-nodefaults -machine %s", mname);
>> >> +    qtest_add_data_func(path, args, test_device_intro_concrete);
>> > 
>> > This runs test_device_intro_concrete() with "-nodefaults -machine M" for
>> > all machine types M, in SPEED=slow mode.
>> > 
>> > Has "without -nodefaults" exposed additional bugs?
>> 
>> After testing this with all machines, I had to discover that
>> "-nodefaults" does not work so easily: A lot of the embedded machines
>> (especially the ARM machines) simply refuse to work with "-nodefaults"
>> and exit immediately instead. E.g.:
>> 
>> $ arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -nodefaults -nographic -M n810,accel=qtest
>> qemu-system-arm: missing SecureDigital device

These are all bugs.  --nodefaults is supposed to suppress *optional*
devices, not mandatory ones.

>> So we'd either need a rather big black list for the machines that do not
>> work, or simply drop the "-nodefaults" tests from this patch.
>
> Or we could try to test all machines anyway, but not consider it
> an error if QEMU just does exit(1).  Can the qtest C API give us
> that information?
>
> (Or we could simply let -nodefaults aside by now, and do this
> after we implement this test case in Python.)

Or we could fix the bugs.