[libvirt] [RFC] [Patch] Make hugepage testcase arch-agnostic

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:41:33AM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:16:31PM +0530, Prerna Saxena wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have attached this patch as a response to a recent failure observed on PowerPC architecture by commit
> > 311b4a67.
> > This patch introduces a check for dynamically obtaining system page size for test hugepages-pages6 under 'qemuxml2argv' suite. ( See patch for more verbose problem description)
> > This patch is not the most perfect implementation -- it fails syntax check; and has a Makefile-driven cleanup pending. I will be happy to deck it up and send it if the community concurs with this
> > approach.
> > 
> > We could also implement this via a shell script ( just like 'virt-test-aa-helper')  but I couldnt find an easy way to determine host page size.
> > 
> > Awaiting community responses,
> > Prerna
> > 
> 
> My preferred solution would be separating all the sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)
> calls into some virGetSystemPageSize helper and mocking it in
> qemuxml2argvmock.c, always returning 4 KB.

I've got a change doing exactly that which I'm in middle of testing.

Regards,
Daniel
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