linux-kernel - Re: [KVM] 671ddc700f: kvm-unit-tests.vmx.fail

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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 07:18:22 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com>
Cc:     Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dan Cross <dcross@...gle.com>, Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        lkp@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [KVM] 671ddc700f: kvm-unit-tests.vmx.fail

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 10:45:48PM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 09:56:16AM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > It's unclear to me what the delta is, but I do see that the 'vmx'
> > suite has failed. That is to be expected if you're getting your
> > kvm-unit-tests from the 'master' branch of the kvm-unit-tests repo.
> > You will need commit 591b5b54bba1 ("x86: Skip APIC-access address
> > tests beyond mapped RAM"), which is in the 'next' branch of the
> > kvm-unit-tests repo, but which has not yet made it to the 'master'
> > branch.
> 
> Thanks for information! We will wait for master upgrade to update our test
> binary.

This reminds me, are we still planning on creating "stable" branches for
kvm-unit-tests[*]?  This topic of came up in a discussion at KVM Forum as
well, though I can't remember any of the details.

Paolo?

[*] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc5ff4ed-c6dd-74ea-03ae-4f65c5d58073@redhat.com