Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Enable Travis builds on arm64, ppc64le and s390x

[Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:46:11PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Travis recently added build hosts for arm64, ppc64le and s390x, so
> this is a welcome addition to our Travis testing matrix.
> 
> Unfortunately, the builds are running in quite restricted LXD containers
> there, for example it is not possible to create huge files there (even
> if they are just sparse), and certain system calls are blocked. So we
> have to change some tests first to stop them failing in such environments.
>

Hi Thomas,

FIY, Avocado[1] has been running checks on those arches for a little
over two weeks and in my experience, there are still some reliability
issues (besides the other limitations you're already aware).

During the last week I've stopped seeing "machines" that wouldn't boot,
or severe networking limitations, but things are still not as smooth
as I'd like.

Anyway, I think we should insist on it, and give it a bit more time,
so I definitely agree with and appreciate this work.

[1] https://travis-ci.org/avocado-framework/avocado/builds

- Cleber.

> v2:
>  - Added "make check-tcg" and Alex' patch to disable cross-containers
>  - Explicitely set "dist: xenial" for arm64 and ppc64le since some
>    iotests are crashing on bionic on these hosts.
>  - Dropped "libcap-dev" from the package list since it will be replaced
>    by libcapng-dev soon.
> 
> Alex Bennée (1):
>   configure: allow disable of cross compilation containers
> 
> Thomas Huth (6):
>   iotests: Provide a function for checking the creation of huge files
>   iotests: Skip test 060 if it is not possible to create large files
>   iotests: Skip test 079 if it is not possible to create large files
>   tests/hd-geo-test: Skip test when images can not be created
>   tests/test-util-filemonitor: Skip test on non-x86 Travis containers
>   travis.yml: Enable builds on arm64, ppc64le and s390x
> 
>  .travis.yml                   | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  configure                     |  8 +++-
>  tests/hd-geo-test.c           | 12 ++++-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/005        |  5 +-
>  tests/qemu-iotests/060        |  3 ++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/079        |  3 ++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/220        |  6 +--
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc  | 10 ++++
>  tests/tcg/configure.sh        |  6 ++-
>  tests/test-util-filemonitor.c | 11 +++++
>  10 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
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