Re: [ovmf test] 87014: regressions - FAIL

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>]

Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:21:58PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> On 03/23/2016 09:27 AM, osstest service owner wrote:
>>> flight 87014 ovmf real [real]
>>> http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/87014/
>>>
>>> Regressions :-(
>>>
>>> Tests which did not succeed and are blocking,
>>> including tests which could not be run:
>>>  test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemuu-ovmf-amd64 9 debian-hvm-install fail REGR. vs. 65543
>>>  test-amd64-i386-xl-qemuu-ovmf-amd64  9 debian-hvm-install fail REGR. vs. 65543
>> I've been testing Anthony's series to 'Load BIOS via toolstack instead of been
>> embedded in hvmloader' [0] in an attempt to use the distro ovmf instead of
>> "ovmf-xen". openSUSE Factory's ovmf package [1] is updated regularly with an
>> upstream git snapshot and I noticed VMs did not boot when using it. I bisected
>> and found ovmf commit 7b0a1ead the culprit
>>
>> commit 7b0a1ead7d2efa7f9eae4c2b254ff154d9c5f74f
>> Author: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
>> Date:   Wed Feb 17 18:06:36 2016 +0800
>>
>>     MdeModuelPkg/PciBus: Return AddrTranslationOffset in GetBarAttributes
>>    
>>     Some platform doesn't use CPU(HOST)/Device 1:1 mapping for PCI Bus.
>>     But PCI IO doesn't have interface to tell caller (device driver)
>>     whether the address returned by GetBarAttributes() is HOST address
>>     or device address.
>>     UEFI Spec 2.6 addresses this issue by clarifying the address returned
>>     is HOST address and caller can use AddrTranslationOffset to calculate
>>     the device address.
>>  
>> I'm sure it's biting this test too.
> 
> Yes, and OSSTest already fingered that commit. According to Anthony OVMF
> is even more broken now because more bugs crept in.
> 
> Anthony is working on fixing OVMF.

Cool. Thanks Anthony!

> 
>> BTW, any pointers on getting debug info from
>> hvmloader+ovmf+qemu+other-components-involved? With the broken ovmf, I got
>> nothing on the VM serial port, an empty, black vfb, nothing beyond "Invoking
>> OVMF..." in xl dmesg, and no errors in the qemu log file. Beyond bisecting, I
>> wasn't sure how to debug :-). I tried adding
>>
>> device_model_args=[ "-debugcon file:debug.log", "-global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402"]
>>
> 
> Can you try
> 
>   device_model_args = ["-debugcon", "file:debug.log", "-global", "isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402"]

Yes, that worked. Thanks.

Regards,
Jim

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