On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 09:28:58AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/07/2016 08:43, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:47:56PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >> As userfaultfd syscall is available on powerpc, migration
> >> postcopy can be used.
> >>
> >> This patch adds the support needed to test this on powerpc,
> >> instead of using a bootsector to run code to modify memory,
> >> we use a FORTH script in "boot-command" property.
> >>
> >> As spapr machine doesn't support "-prom-env" argument
> >> (the nvram is initialized by SLOF and not by QEMU),
> >> "boot-command" is provided to SLOF via a file mapped nvram
> >> (with "-drive file=...,if=pflash")
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> v2: move FORTH script directly in sprintf()
> >>     use openbios_firmware_abi.h
> >>     remove useless "default" case
> >>
> >>  tests/Makefile.include |   1 +
> >>  tests/postcopy-test.c  | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >>  2 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > 
> > There's a mostly cosmetic problem with this.  If you run make check
> > for a ppc64 target on an x86 machine, you get:
> > 
> > GTESTER check-qtest-ppc64
> > "kvm" accelerator not found.
> > "kvm" accelerator not found.
> 
> I think this is because of "-machine accel=kvm:tcg", it tries to use kvm
> and fall back to tcg.
> 
> accel.c:
> 
>      80 void configure_accelerator(MachineState *ms)
>      81 {
> ...
>     100         acc = accel_find(buf);
>     101         if (!acc) {
>     102             fprintf(stderr, "\"%s\" accelerator not found.\n", buf);
>     103             continue;
>     104         }
> 
> We can remove the "-machine" argument to use the default instead (tcg or
> kvm).

That sounds like a good option for a general test.

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