On 27 May 2014 22:38, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > I'm seeing this test failure intermittently on 'make check': > > ERROR:/root/qemu/tests/acpi-test.c:618:test_acpi_one: assertion failed > (signature == SIGNATURE): (0x00000000 == 0x0000dead) > GTester: last random seed: R02S8d0d60963e4442ce284a81d20ce32053 > > (32 bit ARM host, in case that makes a difference.) > > Any ideas? It looks from the test as if this may just be > that the test is coded to assume a faster machine, which > is a bit unfortunate.
Well, I put some diagnostic printing in, and it looks like that guess was wrong. Most of the time we complete well within the timeout limit for the test: TEST: tests/acpi-test... (pid=10639) /i386/acpi/tcg: ........ : looped for 8 cycles total (limit 600) main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations ......... : looped for 9 cycles total (limit 600) main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations OK PASS: tests/acpi-test But occasionally we don't: TEST: tests/acpi-test... (pid=10679) /i386/acpi/tcg: ........ : looped for 8 cycles total (limit 600) main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ : looped for 600 cycles total (limit 600) ** ERROR:/root/qemu/tests/acpi-test.c:620:test_acpi_one: assertion failed (signature == SIGNATURE): (0x00000000 == 0x0000dead) FAIL GTester: last random seed: R02S1fd7be17c4dc962a399b016f9153e15a (pid=10688) FAIL: tests/acpi-test thanks -- PMM