Re: Dovetail 7.1-rc6 updates pushed

On Mon, 2026-06-01 at 15:43 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just pushed the following branch updates for Dovetail based on 7.1-
> > rc6:
> > 
> > Dovetail:
> > wip/flo/v7.1-dovetail-rebase
> > wip/flo/v7.1-dovetail-rebase+riscv
> > 
> > Evl:
> > wip/flo/v7.1-evl-rebase
> > wip/flo/v7.1-evl-rebase+riscv
> > 
> > The +riscv branches are containing v8 of Tobias' riscv enabling series,
> > maybe we need v9, let's see.
> > 
> > Any additional testing on those branches is highly appreciated.
> > 
> > @Philippe:
> > I'm still waiting for some feedback for [1]. That seems now to be a
> > invalid combination of kconfigs, which is dovetail specific. Upstream
> > thread at [2].
> > 
> > Can you remember why KVM_INTEL is not selecting X86_FRED in case
> > IRQ_PIPELINE is enabled? I haven't checked the details yet, nor tried to
> > remove the dovetail specific adjustment.
> > 
> 
> Maybe because the pipeline never supported X86_FRED, doing so would
> required to rework the irq-entry trampoline macros, which is deemed
> painful work.

I sent out a RFC patch for that, input welcome.

Meanwhile I can provide some updates on the testing part. The following
problems seem to be reproducible on 7.1-rc5 and 7.1-rc6 - while 7.1-rc4
was fine (at least once):

x86   x3: Test timeout. Something seems slower than expected.
arm64 x4: Same problem

To rule out problems in our CI setup I spawned some 7.0 tests, which
were fine, at least twice in a row. Seems someone has to look into that.
As I'm running out of time: Any resources available?

Best regards,
Florian