vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test from ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests timeout on B/F

[Kelsey Steele]

Similar timeout occurs on many of the vmx* tests. such as Bug 1847947

Failing on F/fips 5.4.0-1027.31 host rizzo

61. 06/11 15:21:09 DEBUG| utils:0153| [stdout] filter = vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test, test = vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test
62. 06/11 15:21:09 DEBUG| utils:0153| [stdout]
63. 06/11 15:21:09 DEBUG| utils:0153| [stdout] Test suite: vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test
64. 06/11 15:21:18 DEBUG| utils:0153| [stderr] qemu-system-x86_64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 29635 (timeout)
65. 06/11 15:21:18 DEBUG| utils:0153| [stdout] FAIL vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test (timeout; duration=10)
66. 06/11 15:21:18 ERROR| test:0414| Exception escaping from test:
67. Traceback (most recent call last):
68. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 411, in _exec
69. _call_test_function(self.execute, *p_args, **p_dargs)
70. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 823, in _call_test_function
71. return func(*args, **dargs)
72. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 291, in execute
73. postprocess_profiled_run, args, dargs)
74. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 212, in _call_run_once
75. self.run_once(*args, **dargs)
76. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/tests/ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests/ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests.py", line 88, in run_once
77. raise error.TestError("Test failed for {}".format(test_name))
78. TestError: Test failed for vmx_apic_passthrough_tpr_threshold_test

[Francis Ginther (fginther)]

Also seen on bionic:linux (4.15), sru-20210621.

[Cory Todd (corytodd)]

Also seen on focal:linux-fips (5.4.0), sru-20220711.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

This issue can be found on some specific HW in our bare-metal test pool (amaura, onibi, rizzo).

With kvm-unit-test repo updated to d8a4f9e5 (ci: Update the list of tests that we run in the Fedora Cirrus-CI), this test is still failing with the same error message.