Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 43/46] tests/tcg/Makefile: update to be called from Makefile.target

[Alex Bennée]

Richard Henderson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04/24/2018 05:24 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> +run-%: %
>> +    $(call quiet-command, $(QEMU) $< > $<.out, "TEST", "$< on 
>> $(TARGET_NAME)")
>
> I've just had an x86_64 guest test run for 70 minutes.  We need to limit the
> amount of time spent here in some way, with excessive time reported as test
> failure.
>
> One potential way would be to add "ulimit -t $TIMEOUT" to the subshell before
> running qemu.  A default TIMEOUT might be e.g. 15 seconds.  I'm not sure what
> we should expect for the largest test on the smallest hosts...

Sounds reasonable - test-i386-fprem is probably the longest - I'm not
sure it needs to be so exhaustive.

>
>
> r~


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Alex Bennée