Re: Failing eclair-ARM64 job

[Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2023-11-08 09:17, Nicola Vetrini wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> sorry for the late reply; see my response below.
>
> On 2023-10-31 22:47, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Hi Simone,
> >
> > As you might have noticed, all the eclair-ARM64 jobs have been failing
> > recently for the upstream Xen "staging" branch:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/pipelines/1056527466
> > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/pipelines/1056520898
> >
> > Although eclair-ARM64 is "allow_failure: true" still is the only job
> > currently failing and it would be nice to get it fixed, especially as 
> > we
> > are about to make gitlab-ci pipelines gating.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Stefano
> A patch that is meant to address the issue related to D4.11, which 
> makes the Arm job always
> fail with a report on a clean guideline, has been submitted on the ML:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/3f163bb58993410183229e72eb1f227057f9b1c7.1699034273.git.nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx/
This is about the semi-random failures mentioned to Roberto in 
yesterday's MISRA C meeting.
Neither me nor Simone has seem a mail sent from Andrew about such 
semi-random failures.
> We are not aware of any semi-random failures in the ARM64 analysis, and 
> applying this patch
> should fix the problem. The error "error: No such remote: 
> 'autoPRRemote'" should not impact
> the outcome of the job in any way.
>
> Let us know if there are other Arm-related problems to be addressed.
>
> Kind Regards,
--
Nicola Vetrini, BSc
Software Engineer, BUGSENG srl (https://bugseng.com)