On 07/05/2015 13:31, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > This series implements a bare-metal test payload for the ARM and AARCH64 virt > machine models. With the new direction of TCG to finally get multi-threaded > capabilities, simple and easily deployed tests are needed, to reproduce race > conditions and intuitively debug QEMU's TCG internals. > > The goal of the series is to provide an easy way to create SMP guest test > cases > with minimal initialization. In its current state the provided features are, > SMP functionality through PSCI calls, a simple spinlock test-case, and > a minimal printf implementation based on the multiboot test. Parts of this > payload have been also tested with normal hosts, as well as KVM guests. > > For the example spinlock test, racing errors could not be reproduced in > the default single-threaded TCG, even with a non-atomic lock. In KVM the > expected behaviour of no errors with regular locks, and some errors with > a non-atomic lock was observed. Next steps are to test multi-threaded TCG > with this kind of payloads, extend the infrastructure to more complex and > sensitive test cases, as well as support different architectures.
Can we reuse the kvm-unit-tests infrastructure? As you said, the testcases should run just as well with TCG and KVM. Paolo
