Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] tests: Add ivshmem qtest

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:45:28PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 03.04.2014 10:46, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> > The name should be unique and we should clean up in both success and
> > failure (abort(3)) cases.
> 
> The recipe for unique filenames elsewhere is mkstemp(), which I was
> planning to use here as well using "/dev/shm/qtest.XXXXXX" and then to
> somehow strip the /dev/shm/ part, e.g. &...[9].
> 
> However I do not see any existing test specially cleaning up such
> temporary files on SIGABRT rather than just on success. Do you have a
> pointer or suggestion how to do that?

We currently don't have a atabort() mechanism (like atexit(3)) but I
think this is needed.  This would be a separate libqtest patch.

> Still the actual question of this RFC is, how do I detect whether we may
> run this test at all?
> 
> 1) Relying on being run in the build directory, we could try to peek at
> $arch-softmmu/config-target.mak, looking for CONFIG_KVM. Ugly.
> 
> 2) Determine via QMP whether KVM is available in the QEMU binary. How?
> Involves an additional process before launching the actual process with
> -device ivshmem.
> 
> 3) Determine via QMP whether the device QOM type is available in the
> QEMU binary. Involves an additional process.
> 
> 4) Make ivshmem build independent of CONFIG_KVM. Too much work for a
> single out of many test cases.
> 
> 5) ???

Another ugly option, add the test to the i386/x86_64 softmmu target and
only run on Linux hosts.

Stefan