Re: [PATCH] x86/ioperm: add new paravirt function update_io_bitmap

[JÃrgen GroÃ]

On 19.02.20 10:22, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> JÃrgen Groà <jgross@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On 18.02.20 22:03, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > BTW, why isn't stuff like this not catched during next or at least
> > > before the final release? Is nothing running CI on upstream with all
> > > that XEN muck active?
> >
> > This problem showed up by not being able to start the X server (probably
> > not the freshest one) in dom0 on a moderate aged AMD system.
> >
> > Our CI tests tend do be more text console based for dom0.
>
> tools/testing/selftests/x86/io[perm|pl] should have caught that as well,
> right? If not, we need to fix the selftests.

Hmm, yes. Thanks for the pointer.

Will ask our testing specialist what is done in this regard and how it
can be enhanced.


Juergen