linux-kernel - Re: fw_fallback.sh test failed in Debian 11

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Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2022 18:32:36 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Zhou, Jie2X" <jie2x.zhou@...el.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "shuah@...nel.org" <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "Zhang, Tianfei" <tianfei.zhang@...el.com>,
        "linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Li, Philip" <philip.li@...el.com>,
        Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: fw_fallback.sh test failed in Debian 11

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 08:29:15AM -0800, Russ Weight wrote:
> 
> On 12/1/22 22:02, Zhou, Jie2X wrote:
> >> The above message looks like the problem. Firmware sysfs fallback has been turned off
> >> on this system using sysctl. Can you try turning it on and rerunning the test?
> > Sorry, I don't know how to turn on firmware sysfs fallback.
> > Could you tell me?
> 
> Take a look at the kernel documentation (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.html) which says, "This syfs fallback mechanism may be disabled completely on a system by setting the proc sysctl value ignore_sysfs_fallback to true."
> 
> Also refer to the sysctl man page: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/procps/sysctl.8.en.html.

I often see folks mis-running selftests, even thougggh in theory it
should be easy. And so I've added initial kernel selftests support to kdevops:

https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops

So try to enable the selftests dedicated workflow, enable the firmware
test, enable building a linux-next kernel and go to town:

make menuconfig
make
make linux              # installs linux-next
make selftests          # builds selftests
make selftests-firwmare # runs the selftests for firmware

I think we have to up our timeout now for the firmware loader as its
currently failing as the tests now take a bit too long. Anyone oppose we
bump the firmware selftests to 200s ?

  Luis