Re: Skip LinuxInitrd.test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg_with_linux_v3_6 on 32-bit hosts?

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:33:38AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Re-adding qemu-devel since it seems to have been Bcc'd.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:29:06PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > When I run make check-acceptance in a 32-bit (i686) container, this
> > test fails, because it tries to start a guest with 4G of RAM, which
> > can't fit in the userspace address space on a 32-bit host, obviously.
> > 
> >  (16/44) 
> > /home/dwg/src/qemu/tests/acceptance/linux_initrd.py:LinuxInitrd.test_with_2gib_file_should_exit_error_msg_with_linux_v3_6:
> >  FAIL: Regex didn't match: '.*initrd is too large.*max: \\d+, need 
> > 2147483648.*' not found in 'qemu-system-x86_64: -m 4096: ram size too 
> > large\n' (0.12 s)
> > 
> > Should we simply skip this test on 32-bit hosts?
> 
> There's a thread right now asking if we should drop support for 32-bit
> hosts entirely
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg06168.html

Huh.

> I'm curious why you were testing with 32-bit host ? Do you have some
> use case that needs it, or was this just responding to some user bug
> report

A 32-bit build (actually, a couple) is part of my routine pre-pull
tests, precisely because I've accidentally included some things that
broken them.

> As long as we do support 32-bit hosts though, this test definitely needs
> fixing. It is attempting to boot with a 2 GB initrd, so I guess RAM
> needs to be big enough to fit that & boot the guest OS image. Possibly
> it might still work in 2.5-3.0 GB of RAM in guest if that's sufficiently
> small for 32-bit host testing. If not, then skipping seems reasonable,
> as no one will ever use such huge initrds on 32-bit hosts in real
> world.

Right.

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