linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/timers/posix_timers: reimplement check_timer

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Message-ID: <87wmp86umy.ffs@tglx>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:01:09 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Peter
 Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "Eric W.
 Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Edward Liaw
 <edliaw@...gle.com>, Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>, Greg
 Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/timers/posix_timers: reimplement
 check_timer_distribution()

On Mon, Apr 08 2024 at 10:30, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 17:12, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>>         if (ctd_failed)
>>                 ksft_test_result_skip("No signal distribution. Assuming old kernel\n");
>
> Shouldn't the test fail here? The goal of a test is to fail when
> things don't work.
> I don't see any other ksft_test_result_fail() calls, and it does not
> look that the test will hang on incorrect distribution.

I have a fixup for older kernels. I'll get to Olegs patch and the fixup
later today.

Thanks,

        tglx