Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Acceptance tests: use linux-3.6 and set vm memory to 4GiB
On 1/27/19 8:15 PM, Li Zhijian wrote: > QEMU have already supported to load up to 4G initrd if the sepcified memory is > enough and XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is set by guest kernel > > linux-3.6 kernel shipped by Fedora-18 cannot support xldflags so that it > cannot support loading more than 2GiB initrd > > CC: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta > CC: Caio Carrara > CC: Cleber Rosa > CC: Eduardo Habkost > CC: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé > Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian > Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Acceptance tests: use linux-3.6 and set vm memory to 4GiB
On 01/27/2019 11:15 PM, Li Zhijian wrote: QEMU have already supported to load up to 4G initrd if the sepcified memory is enough and XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is set by guest kernel linux-3.6 kernel shipped by Fedora-18 cannot support xldflags so that it cannot support loading more than 2GiB initrd CC: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta CC: Caio Carrara CC: Cleber Rosa CC: Eduardo Habkost CC: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian --- V2: fix typos --- tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py | 14 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta Note to maintainers: the patch 02 implements a test case for https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg588166.html which is in Paolo's queue already. - Wainer diff --git a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py index 737355c..b283715 100644 --- a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py +++ b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py @@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ class LinuxInitrd(Test): timeout = 60 -def test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg(self): +def test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg_with_linux_v3_6(self): """ Pretends to boot QEMU with an initrd file with size of 2GiB and expect it exits with error message. +Fedora-18 shipped with linux-3.6 which have not supported xloadflags +cannot support more than 2GiB initrd. """ -kernel_url = ('https://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/28/' - 'Everything/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz') -kernel_hash = '238e083e114c48200f80d889f7e32eeb2793e02a' +kernel_url = ('https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/li' + 'nux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz') +kernel_hash = '41464f68efe42b9991250bed86c7081d2ccdbb21' kernel_path = self.fetch_asset(kernel_url, asset_hash=kernel_hash) max_size = 2 * (1024 ** 3) - 1 @@ -39,8 +41,8 @@ class LinuxInitrd(Test): initrd.seek(max_size) initrd.write(b'\0') initrd.flush() -cmd = "%s -kernel %s -initrd %s" % (self.qemu_bin, kernel_path, -initrd.name) +cmd = "%s -kernel %s -initrd %s -m 4096" % ( + self.qemu_bin, kernel_path, initrd.name) res = run(cmd, ignore_status=True) self.assertEqual(res.exit_status, 1) expected_msg = r'.*initrd is too large.*max: \d+, need %s.*' % (
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Acceptance tests: use linux-3.6 and set vm memory to 4GiB
QEMU have already supported to load up to 4G initrd if the sepcified memory is enough and XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is set by guest kernel linux-3.6 kernel shipped by Fedora-18 cannot support xldflags so that it cannot support loading more than 2GiB initrd CC: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta CC: Caio Carrara CC: Cleber Rosa CC: Eduardo Habkost CC: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian --- V2: fix typos --- tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py | 14 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py index 737355c..b283715 100644 --- a/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py +++ b/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py @@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ class LinuxInitrd(Test): timeout = 60 -def test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg(self): +def test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg_with_linux_v3_6(self): """ Pretends to boot QEMU with an initrd file with size of 2GiB and expect it exits with error message. +Fedora-18 shipped with linux-3.6 which have not supported xloadflags +cannot support more than 2GiB initrd. """ -kernel_url = ('https://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/28/' - 'Everything/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz') -kernel_hash = '238e083e114c48200f80d889f7e32eeb2793e02a' +kernel_url = ('https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/li' + 'nux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz') +kernel_hash = '41464f68efe42b9991250bed86c7081d2ccdbb21' kernel_path = self.fetch_asset(kernel_url, asset_hash=kernel_hash) max_size = 2 * (1024 ** 3) - 1 @@ -39,8 +41,8 @@ class LinuxInitrd(Test): initrd.seek(max_size) initrd.write(b'\0') initrd.flush() -cmd = "%s -kernel %s -initrd %s" % (self.qemu_bin, kernel_path, -initrd.name) +cmd = "%s -kernel %s -initrd %s -m 4096" % ( + self.qemu_bin, kernel_path, initrd.name) res = run(cmd, ignore_status=True) self.assertEqual(res.exit_status, 1) expected_msg = r'.*initrd is too large.*max: \d+, need %s.*' % ( -- 2.7.4