Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> writes:
> On 12/2/24 02:57, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 at 18:09, Pierrick Bouvier
>> <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Marcin,
>>>
>>> On 12/1/24 05:34, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>>> W dniu 28.11.2024 o 22:37, Pierrick Bouvier pisze:
>>>>> This boot an OP-TEE environment, and launch a nested guest VM inside it
>>>>> using the Realms feature. We do it for virt and sbsa-ref platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org>
>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/tests/functional/meson.build b/tests/functional/meson.build
>>>>> index 5c048cfac6d..b975a1560df 100644
>>>>> --- a/tests/functional/meson.build
>>>>> +++ b/tests/functional/meson.build
>>>>> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ endif
>>>>> test_timeouts = {
>>>>> 'aarch64_aspeed' : 600,
>>>>> 'aarch64_raspi4' : 480,
>>>>
>>>>> + 'aarch64_rme_virt' : 720,
>>>>
>>>> Took 2974.95s on M1 Pro macbook.
>>>>
>>>>> + 'aarch64_rme_sbsaref' : 720,
>>>>
>>>> This one needed 2288.29s.
>>>>
>>>>> 'aarch64_sbsaref_alpine' : 720,
>>>>
>>>> Have to check cause timed out.
>>>>
>>>>> 'aarch64_sbsaref_freebsd' : 720,
>>>>
>>>> 331.65s
>>>>
>>>> So RME tests probably need longer timeouts or would not run at all.
>>>>
>>>
>>> By any chance, are you running those tests in debug mode?
>>> It seems to me that CI is running functional tests with optimized
>>> builds, so I'm not sure we want to support debug "times" here.
>> We do need to support debug times, because a common developer
>> use case is "doing a debug build, run 'make check-functional'
>> to check whether anything is broken. The debug times also
>> are useful because the CI runners can have highly variable
>> performance -- if a test is slow enough to hit the timeout
>> for a debug build locally, it's probably going to also hit
>> the timeout at least sometimes in CI.
>>
>
> I understand the scenario, but given how slow debug builds are, it
> would probably be faster to advise developer to recompile in release
> mode.
> The overall time of compile + test is slower than waiting for debug.
>
> Beyond using a debugger, what is the advantage to compile with -O0?
--enable-debug
- enables -00 with -g3 for symbols
- and enables additional checks to validate TCG
You can use --enable-debug-info for just debug info without the overhead.
>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
