test_efi_selftest_test_input_ex test failure

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 09:51, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 5/30/20 5:24 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >
> > jAm May 30, 2020 2:44:04 PM UTC schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >> Hi Heinrich,
> >>
> >> I got a failure on this commit:
> >>
> >> https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/jobs/102827
> >>
> >> then a retry succeeded:
> >>
> >> https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/jobs/102828
> >>
> >> Any ideas on this?
> >>
> >> Some time ago I had a problem with buildman where the 4k pipe buffer
> >> for console output would happen within a unicode character. I'm not
> >> sure if this has anything to do with the problem, or if pytest uses
> >> 'bytes' under the hood or not.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Simon
> >
> > In the log I see:
> >
> > [1;32;40mExecuting 'extended text input' succeeded
> >
> > It is this call that fails:
> >
> > u_boot_console.restart_uboot()
> >
> > And QEMU writes:
> >
> > DRAM: alloc space exhausted
> >
> > Doesn't this mean that the server does not have enough RAM for all processes running on it? This should be fixed in the Gitlab setup of konsulko-bootbake G37FKVsV.
>
> The message is not from QEMU but from U-Boot:
>
> common/malloc_simple.c:28:
> log_err("alloc space exhausted\n");

Funny how it only happens sometimes though. I wonder what could be
different between runs?

Regards,
Simon