[ACTIVITY] report week ending 20 May

2022-05-20 Thread Peter Maydell
Progress:
 * UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
  - Joint Linaro/Arm meeting on the Realm Management Extension (RME).
Mostly this was "how the software stack is going to work"; some
useful discussion on how this intersects with QEMU, both as a
potential emulation platform for software development and also
as the VMM for a realm-using KVM virtual machine.
  - Kicked off a discussion thread on getting rid of the last parts
of our "ad-hoc CI" this release cycle. The main thing that's
not yet handled by Gitlab CI is FreeBSD and NetBSD hosts.
We might be able to do this if we can find an x86 Linux machine
to act as a gitlab runner (it needs to be able to run guest
BSD VMs).
 * QEMU-422 [QEMU Arm Neoverse V1 vCPU for TCG]
  - Several small features have now made it upstream so those
subtasks have been closed out
  - Looking at FEAT_RASv1p1 and FEAT_DoubleFault. The first of these
is easy because we only model the minimal "no error records"
RAS: I think we can simply bump the ID register fields to
indicate support. The second is a little bit more interesting
because the new SCR_EL3.EASE bit means we suddenly have a
source of physical SErrors (from synchronous external aborts)
when we previously could not have any...

-- PMM
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[ACTIVITY] Report for week #20

2022-05-20 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann


Hello,

# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging

- Rebased my code on current master branch.
- Ran into issues with running the GDB testsuite against gdbserver, both
  on my branch and on master. Currently investigating.
- Regarding the ptrace issues I'm running into, at Richard's suggestion
  I checked the errno and it's ESRCH. This means that the inferior isn't
  in a state where gdbserver can fetch its registers. So maybe there's
  a race condition in gdbserver itself and it's trying to do that before
  the inferior is stopped. Currently investigating.

# Sourceware bug 28561 - [gdb/testsuite] Error due to not reading \r\n
  at end of mi prompt

* Luis mentioned this bug so I started investigating it. Tried
  reproducing it on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 but without success.
  Also tried setting up an openSUSE Leap 15.3 KVM guest to try to
  reproduce it there, but the distro's installer hangs.

-- 
Thiago
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