From 6e304517801fdfb58df582e37cd4df04b5adc1b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frantisek Sumsal <frantisek@sumsal.cz>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:43:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] test: don't use `-cpu max` in GH Actions
There appears to be an issue with newer QEMU versions (spotted with Arch
Linux and C9S containers) which causes the respective GH Action to hang
when booting a QEMU VM in combination with the `-cpu max` parameter.
During (a particularly painful) debugging session I once managed to get
some output from such "frozen" machine (using `earlycon` and
`earlyprintk` kernel cmdline options), and in that particular case the
VM died with a trap caused by an invalid opcode.
I couldn't reproduce this locally, only in GH Actions environment with
Arch Linux and C9S containers. Also, so far I haven't found out which
specific CPUID flag causes this, but using the `IvyBridge-v2` feature
set seems to mitigate the issue.
(cherry picked from commit 3f56d481e8a3c67c2e795686e6ec3bfc4ea08e1d)
---
test/run-qemu | 5 +++--
tools/test-github.sh | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test/run-qemu b/test/run-qemu
index 3c521a14..5dc61037 100755
--- a/test/run-qemu
+++ b/test/run-qemu
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
# We prefer kvm, kqemu, userspace in that order.
export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+QEMU_CPU="${QEMU_CPU:-max}"
-[[ -x /usr/bin/qemu ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu && ARGS=(-cpu max)
+[[ -x /usr/bin/qemu ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu && ARGS=(-cpu "$QEMU_CPU")
(lsmod | grep -q '^kqemu ') && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu && ARGS=(-kernel-kqemu -cpu host)
[[ -c /dev/kvm && -x /usr/bin/kvm ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/kvm && ARGS=(-cpu host)
[[ -c /dev/kvm && -x /usr/bin/qemu-kvm ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu-kvm && ARGS=(-cpu host)
[[ -c /dev/kvm && -x /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm ]] && BIN=/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm && ARGS=(-cpu host)
-[[ -x /usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) && ARGS=(-cpu max)
+[[ -x /usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) && ARGS=(-cpu "$QEMU_CPU")
[[ -c /dev/kvm && -x /usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) ]] && BIN=/usr/bin/qemu-system-$(uname -m) && ARGS=(-enable-kvm -cpu host)
[[ $BIN ]] || {
diff --git a/tools/test-github.sh b/tools/test-github.sh
index eab59dcc..1d61b8e3 100755
--- a/tools/test-github.sh
+++ b/tools/test-github.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ else
cd /lib/modules
ls -1 | tail -1
)" \
+ QEMU_CPU="IvyBridge-v2" \
DRACUT_NO_XATTR=1 \
TEST_RUN_ID="$RUN_ID" \
${TESTS:+TESTS="$TESTS"} \