Steps to reproduce: 1. deploy xenial + HWE kernel on a ppc64el box 2. sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm -y 3. git clone --depth=1 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-unit-tests.git 4. cd kvm-unit-tests 5. ./configure --endian=little; make 6. sudo ppc64_cpu --smt=off 7. sudo ./run_tests -v
>From here you will see it's using the elf file from kvm-unit-tests/powerpc and >failed with 3 tests: - spapr_hcall - emulator (bug 1723914) - sprs (1723904) To run it with a newer qemu built from source: 1. wget http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz 2. tar -xf qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz 3. cd qemu-2.10.0 4. ./configure; make 5. cd ~/kvm-unit-tests 6. sudo su 7. export QEMU=/home/ubuntu/qemu-2.10.0/ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 8. ./run_test -v -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712803 Title: spapr_hcall from ubuntu_kvm_unit_test failed on ppc64el with Z-hwe kernel Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: kernel: 4.10.0-33.37~16.04.1 I think this issue was introduced by the old qemu version (similar issue was spotted on Xenial before), will need to investigate this further. qemu-system-ppc64 -machine pseries,accel=kvm -bios powerpc/boot_rom.bin -display none -serial stdio -kernel powerpc/spapr_hcall.elf -smp 1 FAIL: hypercall: h_set_sprg0: sprg0 = 0xcafebabedeadbeef FAIL: hypercall: h_set_sprg0: sprg0 = 0xaaaaaaaa55555555 FAIL: hypercall: h_set_sprg0: sprg0 = 0x41a588 FAIL: hypercall: h_page_init: h_zero_page FAIL: hypercall: h_page_init: h_copy_page FAIL: hypercall: h_page_init: h_copy_page+h_zero_page FAIL: hypercall: h_page_init: h_zero_page unaligned dst FAIL: hypercall: h_page_init: h_copy_page unaligned src XFAIL: hypercall: h_random: h-call available SUMMARY: 9 tests, 8 unexpected failures, 1 expected failures To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1712803/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
