Re: Failing eclair-ARM64 job

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Nicola Vetrini wrote:
> 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.

So you are saying there is  no problem with the ECLAIR arm64 job, it is
just that it is failing on a false-positive violation and we already
have a tentative fix for that currently under discussion [1]. Once we
commit the fix, everything will pass?

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/3f163bb58993410183229e72eb1f227057f9b1c7.1699034273.git.nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx/