On 7/9/2026 12:03 PM, Pierrick Bouvier wrote: > On 7/9/2026 11:42 AM, Max Filippov wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM Pierrick Bouvier >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If you have a chance to take a look, I observed that test_timer.S is >>> flaky on xtensaeb with kc705_be. It fails with a probably of 25% on my >>> machine. >> >> This is a rather well-known issue that for a core with .clock_freq_khz >> that is not >> exactly matching the icount argument used to run the timer test it >> will sometimes >> fail. The easiest way to fix it is probably changing the default core >> clock frequency. >> The more useful way to fix it would be to make the core clock of the >> `sim` machine >> adjustable and set it to the value that matches the icount. >> > > Could you share the magic command arguments that achieve this? > I can edit test qemu args to match this. >
Using -icount 8 (instead of 6) solves the flakiness. Also, icount is not needed for all other tests, so I restricted it to test_timer only. Regards, Pierrick
