[PATCH v3 18/19] test/py: android: extend abootimg test

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Mon Feb 27 15:18:30 CET 2023


On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 03:15:31PM +0100, Safae Ouajih wrote:
> 
> On 07/02/2023 20:02, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 12:50:20AM +0100, Safae Ouajih wrote:
> > 
> > > test_abootimg is extended to include the testing of boot images
> > > version 4. For this, boot.img and vendor_boot.img have been
> > > generated using mkbootimg tool with setting the header
> > > version to 4.
> > > 
> > > This tests:
> > > - Getting the header version using abootimg
> > > - Extracting the load address of the dtb
> > > - Extracting the dtb start address in RAM
> > > 
> > > Running test:
> > > $ ./test/py/test.py --bd sandbox --build -k test_abootimg
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Safae Ouajih <souajih at baylibre.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > ---
> > >   test/py/tests/test_android/test_abootimg.py | 136 ++++++++++++++++++--
> > >   1 file changed, 123 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > Alright, so I don't know where the failure starts, exactly. And to make
> > testing this easier, there's currently the
> > trini/u-boot-gitlab-ci-runner:jammy-20230126-07Feb2023 container you can
> > use to replicate my problem. The problem is that while this test passes
> > in CI, with GCC, with Clang it fails, consistently:
> > https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/jobs/572239#L284
> > and I'm not quite sure why. I hope that building sandbox with clang and
> > also just trying these features out interactively will fail too, and so
> > debugging this will be less of a problem.
> > 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> I have investigated this issue, clang has a strange behavior in:
> 
> * abootimg_get_dtb_load_addr() : cmd/abootimg.c
> * android_image_get_dtb_by_index() : boot/image-android.c
> 
> That is probably linked to some sort of optimization clang does.
> 
> However, The fail is not reproducible using clang-15 and clang-16 and also
> not reproducible when turning off clang optimizations.
> 
> I suggest using clang-15 to run the test or I can remove all optimizations
> 
> on the related functions if clang-14 is used.

Thanks for investigating.  I see that 15 is now considered stable, so
I'll update the next branch for that, then re-take this series.

-- 
Tom
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