pcid-enabled / pcid-disabled / pcid-asymmetric failed on node riccioli with "FAIL: Test on INVPCID when disabled"

[Po-Hsu Lin]

Issue found on node riccioli with Bionic 5.4.0-1018.20~18.04.1

All these 3 tests are failing with the same error message:
    FAIL: Test on INVPCID when disabled

Test log:
 Running '/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/tmp/ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests/src/kvm-unit-tests/tests/pcid-enabled'
 BUILD_HEAD=16647354
 timeout -k 1s --foreground 90s /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --no-reboot -nodefaults -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -machine accel=kvm -kernel /tmp/tmp.q1TK6Ia33C -smp 1 -cpu qemu64,+pcid,+invpcid # -initrd /tmp/tmp.VZ7veD7mmz
 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.07H:EBX.invpcid [bit 10]
 enabling apic
 PASS: Test on PCID when enabled
 FAIL: Test on INVPCID when disabled
 SUMMARY: 2 tests, 1 unexpected failures
 FAIL pcid-enabled (2 tests, 1 unexpected failures)

Running '/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/tmp/ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests/src/kvm-unit-tests/tests/pcid-disabled'
 BUILD_HEAD=16647354
 timeout -k 1s --foreground 90s /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --no-reboot -nodefaults -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -machine accel=kvm -kernel /tmp/tmp.j1uKBlb4hQ -smp 1 -cpu qemu64,-pcid,-invpcid # -initrd /tmp/tmp.ZD19GK1fFF
 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
 enabling apic
 PASS: Test on PCID when disabled
 FAIL: Test on INVPCID when disabled
 SUMMARY: 2 tests, 1 unexpected failures
 FAIL pcid-disabled (2 tests, 1 unexpected failures)

Running '/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/tmp/ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests/src/kvm-unit-tests/tests/pcid-asymmetric'
 BUILD_HEAD=16647354
 timeout -k 1s --foreground 90s /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --no-reboot -nodefaults -device pc-testdev -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -vnc none -serial stdio -device pci-testdev -machine accel=kvm -kernel /tmp/tmp.kjPTNRmRaC -smp 1 -cpu qemu64,-pcid,+invpcid # -initrd /tmp/tmp.Iap9bLtdnc
 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.01H:ECX.vmx [bit 5]
 qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.07H:EBX.invpcid [bit 10]
 enabling apic
 PASS: Test on PCID when disabled
 FAIL: Test on INVPCID when disabled
 SUMMARY: 2 tests, 1 unexpected failures
 FAIL pcid-asymmetric (2 tests, 1 unexpected failures)

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

This issue can be reproduced on Bionic 4.15 and Bionic 5.4.0-104 on this node as well.

[Luke Nowakowski-Krijger (lukenow)]

found on bionic/linux/4.15.0-177.186/2022.04.18 on ricolli

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

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.