qemurunner: Remove the timeout in run_serial

Sometmes when there is high load in the server the
commands executed in the target take a lot of time
to complete and this lead to incorrect dump files or
empty files. This is caused because run_serial has a
timeout of five seconds when running the commands in
the target.

This change removes the timeout and just keep reading
the socket until it finds the prompt from the target
or when the socket is not ready to be read.

[YOCTO #8510]

(From OE-Core rev: d1a97475b4e6c7066a3161cb9cec1d4b27644518)

Signed-off-by: Mariano Lopez <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index abbafd51e4..e1c8ea1085 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -366,23 +366,25 @@ class QemuRunner:
         # We assume target system have echo to get command status
         if not raw:
             command = "%s; echo $?\n" % command
-        self.server_socket.sendall(command)
+
         data = ''
         status = 0
-        stopread = False
-        endtime = time.time()+5
-        while time.time()<endtime and not stopread:
+        self.server_socket.sendall(command)
+        keepreading = True
+        while keepreading:
             sread, _, _ = select.select([self.server_socket],[],[],5)
-            for sock in sread:
-                answer = sock.recv(1024)
+            if sread:
+                answer = self.server_socket.recv(1024)
                 if answer:
                     data += answer
                     # Search the prompt to stop
                     if re.search("[a-zA-Z0-9]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+:~#", data):
-                        stopread = True
-                        break
+                        keepreading = False
                 else:
                     raise Exception("No data on serial console socket")
+            else:
+                keepreading = False
+
         if data:
             if raw:
                 status = 1