Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 0/4] tests: Add migration test for aarch64

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Wei Huang (address@hidden) wrote:
> This patchset adds a migration test for aarch64. It leverages
> Dave Gilbert's recent patch "tests/migration: Add source to PC boot block"
> to create a new test case for aarch64.

Other than Drew's comment about the ppc comment; I'm happy with this.

Dave

> V6->V7:
>  * Define test memory start/end addresses for all architectures
>  * Check aarch64 kernel binary size, limit under 512KB
> 
> V5->V6:
>  * Add Reviewed-by to patch 1-3
>  * Add more design notes in patch 4 (aarch64 assembly compilation, bin space)
> 
> V4->V5:
>  * Extract cross compilation detection code into rules.mak for sharing
>  * Minor comment and code revision in migration-test.c & aarch64-a-b-kernel.S
>  
> V3->V4:
>  * Rename .s to .S, allowing assembly to include C-style header file
>  * Move test defines into a new migration-test.h file
>  * Use different cpu & gic settings for kvm and tcg modes on aarch64
>  * Clean up aarch64-a-b-kernel.S based on Andrew Jones' comments
>  
> V2->V3:
>  * Convert build script to Makefile
>  * Add cross-compilation support
>  * Fix CPU type for "tcg" machine type
>  * Revise asm code and the compilation process from asm to header file
> 
> V1->V2:
>  * Similar to Dave Gilbert's recent changes to migration-test, we
>    provide the test source and a build script in V2.
>  * aarch64 kernel blob is defined as "unsigned char" because the source
>    is now provided in V2.
>  * Add "-machine none" to test_deprecated() because aarch64 doesn't have
>    a default machine type.
> 
> RFC->V1:
>  * aarch64 kernel blob is defined as an uint32_t array
>  * The test code is re-written to address a data caching issue under KVM.
>    Tests passed under both x86 and aarch64.
>  * Re-use init_bootfile_x86() for both x86 and aarch64
>  * Other minor fixes
> 
> Thanks,
> -Wei
> 
> Wei Huang (4):
>   rules: Move cross compilation auto detection functions to rules.mak
>   tests/migration: Convert the boot block compilation script into
>     Makefile
>   tests/migration: Add migration-test header file
>   tests: Add migration test for aarch64
> 
>  roms/Makefile                                      | 24 ++-----
>  rules.mak                                          | 15 +++++
>  tests/Makefile.include                             |  1 +
>  tests/migration-test.c                             | 78 
> +++++++++++++++++-----
>  tests/migration/Makefile                           | 44 ++++++++++++
>  tests/migration/aarch64-a-b-kernel.S               | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/migration/aarch64-a-b-kernel.h               | 19 ++++++
>  tests/migration/migration-test.h                   | 31 +++++++++
>  tests/migration/rebuild-x86-bootblock.sh           | 33 ---------
>  .../{x86-a-b-bootblock.s => x86-a-b-bootblock.S}   | 12 ++--
>  tests/migration/x86-a-b-bootblock.h                |  4 +-
>  11 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/migration/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 tests/migration/aarch64-a-b-kernel.S
>  create mode 100644 tests/migration/aarch64-a-b-kernel.h
>  create mode 100644 tests/migration/migration-test.h
>  delete mode 100755 tests/migration/rebuild-x86-bootblock.sh
>  rename tests/migration/{x86-a-b-bootblock.s => x86-a-b-bootblock.S} (88%)
> 
> -- 
> 2.14.3
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK