On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 18:16, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > The two TCG tests for GICv2 and GICv3 are very heavy weight distros > that take a long time to boot up, especially for an --enable-debug > build. The total code coverage they give is: > > Overall coverage rate: > lines......: 11.2% (59584 of 530123 lines) > functions..: 15.0% (7436 of 49443 functions) > branches...: 6.3% (19273 of 303933 branches) > > We already get pretty close to that with the machine_aarch64_virt > tests which only does one full boot (~120s vs ~600s) of alpine. We > expand the kernel+initrd boot (~8s) to test both GICs and also add an > RNG device and a block device to generate a few IRQs and exercise the > storage layer. With that we get to a coverage of: > > Overall coverage rate: > lines......: 11.0% (58121 of 530123 lines) > functions..: 14.9% (7343 of 49443 functions) > branches...: 6.0% (18269 of 303933 branches) > > which I feel is close enough given the massive time saving. If we want > to target any more sub-systems we can use lighter weight more directed > tests.
Applied to target-arm.next, thanks. This should significantly improve my pullreq-assembly experience :-) -- PMM
