linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: Improve test output grammar, code style

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Message-ID: <20250515165629d521d4a2@mail.local>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 18:56:29 +0200
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To: Hanne-Lotta Mäenpää <hannelotta@...il.com>
Cc: skhan@...uxfoundation.org, shuah@...nel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: Improve test output grammar, code style

Hello,

On 15/05/2025 19:22:49+0300, Hanne-Lotta Mäenpää wrote:
> Add small grammar fixes in perf events and Real Time Clock tests'
> output messages.
> 
> Include braces around a single if statement, when there are multiple
> statements in the else branch, to align with the kernel coding style.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanne-Lotta Mäenpää <hannelotta@...il.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/watermark_signal.c |  7 ++++---
>  tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c                  | 10 +++++-----
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/watermark_signal.c b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/watermark_signal.c
> index 49dc1e831174..6176afd4950b 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/watermark_signal.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/watermark_signal.c
> @@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ TEST(watermark_signal)
>  
>  	child = fork();
>  	EXPECT_GE(child, 0);
> -	if (child == 0)
> +	if (child == 0) {
>  		do_child();
> +	}

This change seems unrelated.

>  	else if (child < 0) {
>  		perror("fork()");
>  		goto cleanup;
> @@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ TEST(watermark_signal)
>  	if (waitpid(child, &child_status, WSTOPPED) != child ||
>  	    !(WIFSTOPPED(child_status) && WSTOPSIG(child_status) == SIGSTOP)) {
>  		fprintf(stderr,
> -			"failed to sycnhronize with child errno=%d status=%x\n",
> +			"failed to synchronize with child errno=%d status=%x\n",
>  			errno,
>  			child_status);
>  		goto cleanup;
> @@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ TEST(watermark_signal)
>  	fd = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, child, -1, -1,
>  		     PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC);
>  	if (fd < 0) {
> -		fprintf(stderr, "failed opening event %llx\n", attr.config);
> +		fprintf(stderr, "failed to setup performance monitoring %llx\n", attr.config);
>  		goto cleanup;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c b/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c
> index be175c0e6ae3..8fd4d5d3b527 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rtc/rtctest.c
> @@ -138,10 +138,10 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(rtc, date_read_loop, READ_LOOP_DURATION_SEC + 2) {
>  		rtc_read = rtc_time_to_timestamp(&rtc_tm);
>  		/* Time should not go backwards */
>  		ASSERT_LE(prev_rtc_read, rtc_read);
> -		/* Time should not increase more then 1s at a time */
> +		/* Time should not increase more than 1s per read */
>  		ASSERT_GE(prev_rtc_read + 1, rtc_read);
>  
> -		/* Sleep 11ms to avoid killing / overheating the RTC */
> +		/* Sleep 11ms to avoid overheating the RTC */
>  		nanosleep_with_retries(READ_LOOP_SLEEP_MS * 1000000);
>  
>  		prev_rtc_read = rtc_read;
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ TEST_F(rtc, alarm_alm_set) {
>  	if (alarm_state == RTC_ALARM_DISABLED)
>  		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms are not supported.");
>  	if (alarm_state == RTC_ALARM_RES_MINUTE)
> -		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms has only minute granularity.");
> +		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms have only minute granularity.");

I guess the proper fix is to remove the s in alarms as there is only one
alarm.

>  
>  	rc = ioctl(self->fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &tm);
>  	ASSERT_NE(-1, rc);
> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ TEST_F(rtc, alarm_wkalm_set) {
>  	if (alarm_state == RTC_ALARM_DISABLED)
>  		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms are not supported.");
>  	if (alarm_state == RTC_ALARM_RES_MINUTE)
> -		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms has only minute granularity.");
> +		SKIP(return, "Skipping test since alarms have only minute granularity.");
>  
>  	rc = ioctl(self->fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &alarm.time);
>  	ASSERT_NE(-1, rc);
> @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	if (access(rtc_file, R_OK) == 0)
>  		ret = test_harness_run(argc, argv);
>  	else
> -		ksft_exit_skip("[SKIP]: Cannot access rtc file %s - Exiting\n",
> +		ksft_exit_skip("Cannot access RTC file %s - exiting\n",
>  						rtc_file);
>  
>  	return ret;
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 

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Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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