Re: latest GOOD state of series i386 cleanup, arm cleanup, s390 cleanup

From: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Liang Yan" <lyan@suse.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Al Cho" <ACho@suse.com>
Subject: Re: latest GOOD state of series i386 cleanup, arm cleanup, s390 cleanup
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:06:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c016171-5c59-ee82-7fd7-6afa61182fb7@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ra1crx4.fsf@linaro.org>

On 5/20/21 6:02 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> writes:
> 
>> On 5/18/21 4:02 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>
>>> Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 5/17/21 11:53 AM, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> due to my inactivity for a few weeks coupled likely with the upstream processes around qemu-6.0 now the series:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) i386 cleanup
>>>>> 2) arm cleanup and experimental kvm-only build
>>>>> 3) s390 cleanup
>>>>>
>>>>> have become stale and hard to rebase on latest master.
>>>>> This effect is compounded by the fact that lots of broken tests in
>>>>> master have been added.
>>>
>>> Which tests are these? I know master suffers a bit from occasional
>>> falling red but to my knowledge everything should be green (at least
>>> from my last PR anyway ;-).
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In the interest of not losing work,
>>>>> I provide here the latest known good state of these series:
>>>>>
>>>>> For the i386 cleanup:
>>>>> https://gitlab.com/hw-claudio/qemu/-/pipelines/293603386
>>>>>
>>>>> Tests started breaking horribly since about 1/2 weeks.
>>>
>>> The pipeline only shows one failed test (checkpatch) which is an
>>> allowfail I believe. /me is confused.
>>
>> Hi Alex, yes, I pointed to the last pipeline that works :-)
>>
>>>
>>>>> The latest version of the cleanup is reachable here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/qemu/qemu.git branch "i386_cleanup_9"
>>>>>
>>>>> In my understanding, Paolo has now picked up this one.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the ARM cleanup and experimental kvm-only build:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://gitlab.com/hw-claudio/qemu/-/pipelines/293603376
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/qemu/qemu.git branch "arm_cleanup_v15"
>>>>>
>>>>> Again here tests started misbehaving in the same timeframe.
>>>>>
>>>>> The state of ARM cleanup is still experimental, maybe Liang or
>>>>> Philippe you can adopt this one?
> 
> I've done a re-base onto the current master (and my testing/next):
> 
>   https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/review/arm_cleanup_v15
> 
> which is currently working it's way through my CI:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/pipelines/306727076
> 
> As I've got patches waiting for this re-factor I'm happy to take the
> series on if you've run out of time/patience ;-)
> 

I don't see any other takers so it makes sense, thanks a lot!

Maybe Liang you could help Alex along the way in promoting this work from experimental state to ready for actual integration?

Thanks,

Claudio