Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] tests/Makefile: comment out flakey tests

[Peter Maydell]

On 19 May 2018 at 07:10, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18.05.2018 20:31, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Another flaky test for the collection:
>>
>> TEST: tests/boot-serial-test... (pid=25144)
>>   /sparc64/boot-serial/sun4u:                                          **
>> ERROR:/home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/tests/boot-serial-test.c:140:check_guest_output:
>> assertion failed: (output_ok)
>> FAIL
>>
>> Probably another "overly optimistic timeout" setting. (Failed
>> for me on x86-64 host just now.)
>
> That test normally finishes within 3 seconds on my machine. The test
> timeout is 60 seconds. How much load did you have on that machine to go
> from 3s to 60s ?

The machine is my desktop box; I didn't notice anything too
terrible while I was using it interactively at the same time
the test build was running. The test build will run at -j8;
it might also have been during a different -j8 build/test
on the same machine for a different source tree.

60s is quite a long time, so maybe there's an intermittent
deadlock in there instead...

thanks
-- PMM