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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix core dump suppression in test
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix core dump suppression in test 039 |
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Wed, 14 May 2014 09:58:15 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Am 13.05.2014 um 19:44 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Fam Zheng <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 05/13 10:46, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> The shell script attempts to suppress core dumps like this:
> >>
> >> old_ulimit=$(ulimit -c)
> >> ulimit -c 0
> >> $QEMU_IO arg...
> >> ulimit -c "$old_ulimit"
> >>
> >> This breaks the test hard unless the limit was zero to begin with!
> >> ulimit sets both hard and soft limit by default, and (re-)raising the
> >> hard limit requires privileges. Broken since it was added in commit
> >> dc68afe.
> >>
> >> Could be fixed by adding -S to set only the soft limit, but I'm not
> >> sure how portable that is in practice. Simply do it in a subshell
> >> instead, like this:
> >>
> >> (ulimit -c 0; exec $QEMU_IO arg...)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> >> ---
> >> tests/qemu-iotests/039 | 18 ++++++------------
> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/039 b/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> >> index b9cbe99..182b0f0 100755
> >> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> >> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/039
> >> @@ -67,10 +67,8 @@ echo "== Creating a dirty image file =="
> >> IMGOPTS="compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on"
> >> _make_test_img $size
> >>
> >> -old_ulimit=$(ulimit -c)
> >> -ulimit -c 0 # do not produce a core dump on abort(3)
> >> -$QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0x5a 0 512" -c "abort" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
> >> -ulimit -c "$old_ulimit"
> >> +(ulimit -c 0 # do not produce a core dump on abort(3)
> >> +exec $QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0x5a 0 512" -c "abort" "$TEST_IMG") |
> >> _filter_qemu_io
> >
> > This works well.
> >
> > But when I try to put this in a function to avoid repeating:
> >
> > function _no_dump_exec()
> > {
> > (ulimit -c 0; exec "$@")
> > }
> >
> > _no_dump_exec $QEMU_IO -c "write -P 0x5a 0 512" -c "abort" "$TEST_IMG")
> > | _filter_qemu_io
> >
> > it doesn't work:
> >
> > 039 1s ... - output mismatch (see 039.out.bad)
> > --- 039.out 2014-05-13 12:10:39.248866480 +0800
> > +++ 039.out.bad 2014-05-13 17:19:46.161986618 +0800
> > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> >
> > == Creating a dirty image file ==
> > Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=134217728
> > +./039: line 51: 10517 Aborted "$@"
> > wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 0
> > 512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
> > incompatible_features 0x1
> >
> > Any idea what the difference is here?
>
> This is qemu-io aborting, as instructed. The command is
>
> qemu-io --cache writeback --cache writethrough -c 'write -P 0x5a 0 512'
> -c abort scratch/t.qcow2
>
> [...]
>
> The additional "Aborted" line appears as soon as I put pass the qemu-io
> command to a function that runs it using "$@". I don't need a subshell,
> exec or anything:
So that looks fine, I'd even consider it a feature to have the abort
recorded explicitly. Let's just update the reference output. Another
reason why qemu-iotests is bash-only, but we already have the same kind
of output in other test cases, so this is not setting a precedence.
Kevin