netdev - Re: 4.19: udpgso_bench_tx: setsockopt zerocopy: Unknown error 524

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:27:14 -0400
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fred Klassen <fklassen@...neta.com>
Subject: Re: 4.19: udpgso_bench_tx: setsockopt zerocopy: Unknown error 524

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:15 PM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:47:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:37:33 -0400
> >
> > > Specific to the above test, I can add a check command testing
> > > setsockopt SO_ZEROCOPY  return value. AFAIK kselftest has no explicit
> > > way to denote "skipped", so this would just return "pass". Sounds a
> > > bit fragile, passing success when a feature is absent.
> >
> > Especially since the feature might be absent because the 'config'
> > template forgot to include a necessary Kconfig option.
>
> That is what the "skip" response is for, don't return "pass" if the
> feature just isn't present.  That lets people run tests on systems
> without the config option enabled as you say, or on systems without the
> needed userspace tools present.

I was not aware that kselftest had this feature.

But it appears that exit code KSFT_SKIP (4) will achieve this. Okay,
I'll send a patch and will keep that in mind for future tests.