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

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Date:   Sat, 2 May 2020 13:42:07 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     shuah <shuah@...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 Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ftrace/selftest: make unresolved cases cause
 failure if --fail-unresolved set

On Fri, 1 May 2020 08:25:50 -0600
shuah <shuah@...nel.org> wrote:

> 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!

> 
> thanks,
> -- Shuah


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>