linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: timers: Fix run_destructive

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Message-ID: <9fb88f04-f1ee-0c05-173e-db9bb4abb137@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:24:02 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: timers: Fix run_destructive_tests target to
 handle skipped tests

On 08/18/2017 04:13 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com> wrote:
>> When a test exits with skip exit code of 4, "make run_destructive_tests"
>> halts testing. Fix run_destructive_tests target to handle error exit codes.
>>
>> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile
>> index c805ab048d26..6c1327278d5f 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile
>> @@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED = alarmtimer-suspend valid-adjtimex adjtick change_skew
>>
>>  include ../lib.mk
>>
>> +define RUN_DESTRUCTIVE_TESTS
>> +       @for TEST in $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED); do \
>> +               BASENAME_TEST=`basename $$TEST`;        \
>> +               if [ ! -x $$BASENAME_TEST ]; then       \
>> +                       echo "selftests: Warning: file $$BASENAME_TEST is not executable, correct this.";\
>> +                       echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [FAIL]"; \
>> +               else                                    \
>> +                       cd `dirname $$TEST`; (./$$BASENAME_TEST && echo "selftests: $$BASENAME_TEST [PASS]") || echo "selftests:  $$BASENAME_TEST [FAIL]"; cd -;\
>> +               fi;                                     \
>> +       done;
>> +endef
>> +
>>  # these tests require escalated privileges
>>  # and may modify the system time or trigger
>>  # other behavior like suspend
>>  run_destructive_tests: run_tests
>> -       ./alarmtimer-suspend
>> -       ./valid-adjtimex
>> -       ./adjtick
>> -       ./change_skew
>> -       ./skew_consistency
>> -       ./clocksource-switch
>> -       ./freq-step
>> -       ./leap-a-day -s -i 10
> 
> 
> So this resolves the issue with tests returning skipped, but we'll
> need to change the leap-a-day test to default to the specified
> arguments above, as it runs indefinitely w/o arguments. Thus with the
> patch above, make run_destructive_tests never completes.

Thanks for catching the regression running leap-a-day indefinitely.
I missed that one :(

> 
> I'll scratch a patch out to make the change in defaults.

That will be great. Thanks,

-- Shuah