ugh, unless you meant the Build_VS2019_TARGET_CODE_COVERAGE and
Build_GCC5_TARGET_CODE_COVERAGE test failures, which I mentioned in
passing -- I agree that those don't look healthy.

Thanks
Laszlo

On 1/5/23 16:15, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On 1/5/23 00:34, Kinney, Michael D wrote:
>> Hi Laszlo,
>>
>> Unit test code coverage was enabled just a couple days ago in CI.  Looks 
>> like you uncovered a corner case that was missed that should not generate a 
>> CI failure.
>>
>> I have asked Gua to investigate.
> 
> the CI env is healthy, as far as I can tell. It's just that this patch
> catches a grave bug in QEMU, and refuses continue booting if the bug is
> present (intentionally). The issue is that currently there's no released
> QEMU version with the fix, so if this patch is merged immediately into
> OVMF, then OVMF will hang every test case in CI. (Every test scenario
> that boots OVMF one way or another.)
> 
> Practically, this patch must be postponed until QEMU can be upgraded in
> the CI env -- it turns out though that the latter could be possible much
> earlier than I had hoped.
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 7:13 AM
>>> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
>>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianoc...@kernel.org>; Brijesh Singh 
>>> <brijesh.si...@amd.com>; Aktas, Erdem <erdemak...@google.com>; Gerd
>>> Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>; James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>; Yao, 
>>> Jiewen <jiewen....@intel.com>; Justen, Jordan L
>>> <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Xu, Min M <min.m...@intel.com>; Boeuf, 
>>> Sebastien <sebastien.bo...@intel.com>; Tom Lendacky
>>> <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
>>> Subject: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/1] OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: catch QEMU's CPU 
>>> hotplug reg block regression
>>>
>>> Repo:       https://pagure.io/lersek/edk2.git
>>> Branch:     cpuhp-reg-catch-4250
>>> Test build: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/3853
>>> Bugzilla:   https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250
>>>
>>> NOTE: the test build linked above (in the github.com CI env) *failed*.
>>> That's because the CI environment is affected by this very QEMU bug!
>>>
>>> Namely, the following checks failed -- due to the intentional hang
>>> introduced in this patch:
>>>
>>> - PlatformCI_OvmfPkg_Ubuntu_GCC5_PR (12 tests)
>>> - PlatformCI_OvmfPkg_Windows_VS2019_PR (11 tests)
>>>
>>> (The Build_VS2019_TARGET_CODE_COVERAGE and
>>> Build_GCC5_TARGET_CODE_COVERAGE tests also failed, but those seem bogus
>>> to me.)
>>>
>>> All 12+11=23 PlatformCI_OvmfPkg_* checks failed due to timeout, and the
>>> firmware logs of the DEBUG and NOOPT builds end with:
>>>
>>>> INFO - PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization: Broken CPU hotplug register 
>>>> block: Present=0 Possible=1.
>>>> INFO - PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization: Switch QEMU's acceleration from 
>>>> TCG to KVM, or update QEMU.
>>>> INFO - PlatformMaxCpuCountInitialization: Refer to 
>>>> <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4250>.
>>>> INFO - ASSERT 
>>>> /home/vsts/work/1/s/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c(574): 
>>>> ((BOOLEAN)(0==1))
>>>
>>> So I'm not proposing to merge this immediately; something must be fixed
>>> first:
>>>
>>> - use KVM in the CI env, or
>>>
>>> - delay this patch until my QEMU fix is merged, and a new release is
>>>   made, and the new QEMU release is packaged by the distros, and the new
>>>   distro packages are picked up by github.com CI.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laszlo
>>>
>>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianoc...@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>
>>> Cc: Erdem Aktas <erdemak...@google.com>
>>> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>
>>> Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen....@intel.com>
>>> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
>>> Cc: Min Xu <min.m...@intel.com>
>>> Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.bo...@intel.com>
>>> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
>>>
>>> Laszlo Ersek (1):
>>>   OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: catch QEMU's CPU hotplug reg block regression
>>>
>>>  OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>
> 



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