[kvm-unit-tests PATCH 1/2] scripts: unittests.cfg: Rename 'extra_params' to 'qemu_params'

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Thu Jul 3 00:07:39 AEST 2025


On 25/06/2025 17.43, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> The arm and arm64 architectures can also be run with kvmtool, and work is
> under way to have it supported by the run_tests.sh test runner. Not
> suprisingly, kvmtool's syntax for running a virtual machine is different to
> qemu's.
> 
> Add a new unittest parameter, 'qemu_params', with the goal to add a similar
> parameter for kvmtool, when that's supported.
> 
> 'extra_params' has been kept in the scripts as an alias for 'qemu_params'
> to preserve compatibility with custom test definition, but it is expected
> that going forward new tests will use 'qemu_params'.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones at linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> ---
...
> diff --git a/docs/unittests.txt b/docs/unittests.txt
> index c4269f6230c8..3d19fd70953f 100644
> --- a/docs/unittests.txt
> +++ b/docs/unittests.txt
> @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ param = value format.
>   
>   Available parameters
>   ====================
> -Note! Some parameters like smp and extra_params modify how a test is run,
> -while others like arch and accel restrict the configurations in which the
> -test is run.
> +Note! Some parameters like smp and qemu_params/extra_params modify how a
> +test is run, while others like arch and accel restrict the configurations
> +in which the test is run.
>   
>   file
>   ----
> @@ -56,13 +56,18 @@ smp = <number>
>  Optional, the number of processors created in the machine to run the test.
>  Defaults to 1. $MAX_SMP can be used to specify the maximum supported.
>   
> -extra_params
> +qemu_params
>  ------------

Please adjust the length of the "---" line now, too.

With that nit fixed:
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>



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