linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/14] selftests: harness: Move teardown conditional into test metadata

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Message-ID: <20250610234657.GO543171@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:46:57 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/14] selftests: harness: Move teardown conditional
 into test metadata

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 11:48:44AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 09:09:02AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 01:38:22PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > #  RUN           iommufd_dirty_tracking.domain_dirty128M_huge.enforce_dirty ...
> > > > # enforce_dirty: Test terminated unexpectedly by signal 11
> > 
> > Sig 11 is weird..
> 
> > > On another note, the selftest should use the kselftest_harness' ASSERT_*()
> > > macros instead of plain assert().
> > 
> > IIRC the kselftest stuff explodes if you try to use it's assert
> > functions within a fixture setup/teardown context.
> > 
> > I also wasn't able to reproduce this (x86 ubuntu 24 LTS OS) Maybe
> > it is ARM specific, I think Nicolin is running on ARM..
> 
> Yes. And I was running with 64KB page size. I just quickly retried
> with 4KB page size (matching x86), and all failed tests pass now.

That's a weird thing to be sensitive too. Can you get a backtrace from
the crash, what function/line is crashing?

Jason