On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:43:17 -0800
Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-01-14 at 11:58 +0100, Normand wrote:
> > Hello Adam,
> > 
> > I am surprised by the number of errors for PowerPC on openqa stg
> > since 20200110 compose:
> > https://openqa.stg.fedoraproject.org/group_overview/3
> > Is there some pending changes on those machines ?
> > 
> > We do not have such errors in our local openqa server at IBM for
> > same compose versions.
> 
> Hi Michel!
> 
> Long story short, it's:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1784961
> 
> I took out the workaround we had in the templates to set the machine
> to pseries-4.0 because I thought we didn't need it any more, but I've
> just figured out that's what's causing the problems. We're hitting the
> behaviour described in that bug, where the kernel checks something to
> do with xive, then triggers a reboot. That breaks all tests where we
> want to pass in kernel params, because when the reboot happens, our
> params get lost (our test code doesn't know to enter them again, as
> it's not something we envisaged when writing the tests).
> 
> Kevin was trying to do a backport of the qemu fix, if he's succeeded
> with that I'll try it out, otherwise I'll put the pseries-4.0
> workaround back in. Sorry for the inconvenience!

things should work again without any workarounds with the new qemu (now
in infra repo, rawhide 4.2 + a patch from master) and SLOF from rawhide

> BTW, did you notice I enabled update tests for ppc64le on staging? :)

no, but thank you :-)


                Dan
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