linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ktest.pl: Fix combined usage of BISECT_REVERSE and BISECT

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Message-ID: <1335228915.28106.129.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:55:15 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ktest.pl: Fix combined usage of BISECT_REVERSE and
 BISECT_SKIP

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:15 -0700, Russ Dill wrote:
> When BISECT_REVERSE and BISECT_SKIP are used together with boot or test testing,
> build failures are treated as boot or test failures and 'git bisect bad' is executed instead
> of 'git bisect skip'. This is because the $ret value of -1 is treated as a build failure, but
> the $reverse_bisect logic does not properly handle this.
> 
> Simple fix, don't invert $ret if it is -1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl
> index 95d6a6f..5221b00 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl
> +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl
> @@ -2192,7 +2192,7 @@ sub run_bisect {
>      }
>  
>      # Are we looking for where it worked, not failed?
> -    if ($reverse_bisect) {
> +    if ($reverse_bisect && $ret != -1) {

Thanks! But can you resend with the following change:

	... && $ret >= 0) {

Just incase we have $ret be another negative number for something else.

-- Steve

>  	$ret = !$ret;
>      }
>  


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