linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option

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Message-ID: <20160519202412.GA20469@cloud>
Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 13:24:12 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] rcutorture: Make -soundhw a x86 specific option

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:38:47PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 09:23:39AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:40:42AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:10:13AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:23:10PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:42:23AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > > > The option "-soundhw pcspk" gives me a error on PPC as follow:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > qemu-system-ppc64: ISA bus not available for pcspk
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > , which means this option doesn't work on ppc by default. So simply make
> > > > > > this an x86-specific option via identify_qemu_args().
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > The emulated system for RCU testing does not need sound hardware at all.
> > > > > Paul added this option in commit
> > > > > 16c77ea7d0f4a74e49009aa2d26c275f7f93de7c to disable the default sound
> > > > > hardware, saying that '"-soundhw pcspk" makes the script a bit less
> > > > > dependent on odd audio libraries being installed'.  Unfortunately, it
> > > > > looks like there isn't a "-soundhw none".  As far as I can tell,
> > > > > currently the only way to completely eliminate sound hardware is to pass
> > > > > "-nodefaults" and then explicitly specify each desired device; while
> > > > > that would solve the issue, it would likely introduce *more*
> > > > > hardware-specific command-line options...
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've filed two feature requests on upstream qemu to make this simpler:
> > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1583420 and
> > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1583421 .
> > > > > 
> > > > > Paul, what did you mean by "dependent on odd audio libraries"?  Did you
> > > > > mean in the guest or the host?  And either way, is this something that
> > > > > could potentially be solved another way?
> > > > 
> > > > If I remember correctly, Ubuntu 14.04 qemu refused to run the guest
> > > > without this option, but I don't recall the exact error message.
> > > > I chalked it up to my ignorance of qemu, but I would very much welcome
> > > > some way to not have to specify irrelevant hardware.  So thank you very
> > > > much for filing the bugs!
> > > 
> > > According to qemu upstream, qemu doesn't enable any sound hardware by
> > > default, so I can't think of any obvious reason why adding "-soundhw
> > > pcspkr" would make the rcutorture VM boot.  Did qemu refuse to run at
> > > all, or did the VM start but fail during the boot process?
> > > 
> > > Could you check if you can currently run without this option?  If so,
> > > perhaps we should just drop it for now.
> > 
> > Will do!  As soon as the current test completes.
> 
> And it now works just fine without the "-soundhw pcspkr".  Search me!

In that case, can you replace the patch in this series making "-soundhw
pcspkr" target-specific with one removing "-soundhw pcspkr"?

- Josh Triplett