CI: switch KBL console into polling mode

[PATCH] CI: switch KBL console into polling mode

Posted by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 2 days, 13 hours ago

In an attempt to debug/workaround occasional console freeze, switch it
to polling mode. If that helps, it will narrow down the search.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
---
 automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml b/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
index 9eb102a885e5..31616c5710a0 100644
--- a/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
+++ b/automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
   variables:
     PCIDEV: "00:1f.6"
     PCIDEV_INTR: "MSI"
-    CONSOLE_OPTS: "console=com1 com1=115200,8n1,pci,msi"
+    CONSOLE_OPTS: "console=com1 com1=115200,8n1,pci,0"
     SUT_ADDR: test-3.testnet
   tags:
     - qubes-hw3
-- 
2.51.0

Re: [PATCH] CI: switch KBL console into polling mode

Posted by Jan Beulich 2 days, 13 hours ago

On 08.12.2025 16:35, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> In an attempt to debug/workaround occasional console freeze, switch it
> to polling mode. If that helps, it will narrow down the search.

Just to mention: On at least one of my boxes I see such a loss-of-console
issue too, when using MSI. As it's entirely random (and can recover itself
after a while), it so far has escaped debugging attempts.

Jan