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

[Thomas Huth]

On 27.04.2018 08:31, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> 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.

Even if we fix all the issues, there is still another cosmetic problem:
Since there are no entries in nd_table[], all the boards with embedded
NICs start to spill out "warning: nic XYZ has no peer". Should we simply
suppress that warning in qtest mode?

 Thomas