linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ftrace/selftest: make unresolved cases cause failure if --fail-unresolved set

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Date:   Fri, 1 May 2020 08:25:50 -0600
From:   shuah <shuah@...nel.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@...onical.com>,
        shuah <shuah@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ftrace/selftest: make unresolved cases cause
 failure if --fail-unresolved set

On 5/1/20 3:42 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:39:41 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:33:30 +0000
>> Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently, ftracetest will return 1 (failure) if any unresolved cases
>>> are encountered.  The unresolved status results from modules and
>>> programs not being available, and as such does not indicate any
>>> issues with ftrace itself.  As such, change the behaviour of
>>> ftracetest in line with unsupported cases; if unsupported cases
>>> happen, ftracetest still returns 0 unless --fail-unsupported.  Here
>>> --fail-unresolved is added and the default is to return 0 if
>>> unresolved results occur.
>>>
>>
>> OK, this looks good to me. One note, with this change, ftracetest doesn't
>> fail even if your test environment is not well prepared anymore.
>>
>> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 
> Hi Shuah,
> Could you pick this up?
> 
> Po-Hsu Lin seemed to face same problem recently. If this applied, it will be solved.
> 

Sorry about this. I will get these in

thanks,
-- Shuah