Re: [PATCH] tests/boot-serial-test: Allow the HPPA machine to shudown

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/23/20 5:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 23/01/2020 01.36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
The boot-serial test uses SeaBIOS on HPPA, and expects to read the
"SeaBIOS wants SYSTEM HALT" string, see [*]:

  122 void __VISIBLE __noreturn hlt(void)
  123 {
  124     if (pdc_debug)
  125         printf("HALT initiated from %p\n",  __builtin_return_address(0));
  126     printf("SeaBIOS wants SYSTEM HALT.\n\n");
  127     asm volatile("\t.word 0xfffdead0": : :"memory");
  128     while (1);
  129 }

A 'SYSTEM HALT' would really halts the CPU, but SeaBIOS implements
it as an infinite loop.

If SeaBIOS does not use the expected serial port but another device,
we might poll the console indefinitely while the machine is halted.

Allow the HPPA machine to 'shutdown'. When it does, we'll get
a qtest error:

   $ make check-qtest-hppa
     TEST    check-qtest-hppa: tests/qtest/boot-serial-test
   ** (tests/qtest/boot-serial-test:31924): ERROR **: 01:12:37.604: Failed to 
find expected string. Please check '/tmp/qtest-boot-serial-sjxoM6Q'
   ERROR - Bail out! FATAL-ERROR: Failed to find expected string. Please check 
'/tmp/qtest-boot-serial-sjxoM6Q'
   make: *** [tests/Makefile.include:628: check-qtest-hppa] Error 1

The tests are run with -no-shutdown. Why does qemu exit in that case?

Because the HPPA firmware called HALT.

Sounds like a bug in another place, and not in the boot-serial-test.

Yes, the bug is elsewhere, but with the bug the boot-serial-test hangs 
forever.... No output on the console, qtest waiting indefinitely.