Re: [PATCH 2/2] ftrace/selftest: absence of modules/programs should trigger unsupported errors

[Alan Maguire]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> On Thu,  6 Feb 2020 15:09:20 +0000
> Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In a number of cases, the ftrace tests check for the presence of
> > ftrace testing-related modules (ftrace-direct, trace-printk) and
> > programs (checkbashisms), returning exit_unresolved if these
> > are not found.  The problem is, exit_unresolved causes execution
> > of ftracetest to return an error, when really our tests are
> > failing due to not having the requisite kernel configuration/tools
> > present, which is I think more of an unsupported error condition.
> > With these fixed, we see no unresolved test cases and ftracetest
> > returns success ("ok" when run via kselftest).
> 
> If your problem is to pass the test even if you don't test the
> feature, please change the ftracetest itself instead of replacing
> unresolved with unsupported. Those notice different situation.
> 
> unresolved - Testcase can not find some tools or helper drivers
>              which are required for this testcase.
> 
> unsupported - Kernel does not have tested feature because of
>               the version or the configuration.
> 
> Obviously the unresolved is a test environment issue. No test-module
> doesn't mean no feature to be tested.
> Could you tell me the reason why you can't install those required
> tools and modules on the test environment?
> 

Sure! In my case, I'm testing a distro production kernel,
where I can't control the CONFIG variable settings.  In
this case, ideally I'd like the tests to return success
if no problems with ftrace were detected, even if some
of the tests could not be run due to missing modules
and programs.  As you suggest above (unless I'm
misunderstanding), this could be accomplished by modifying
ftracetest itself.  Would doing something like what is done
for UNSUPPORTED_RESULT (defaults to 0, but can be set to
1 via --fail-unsupported, such that ftracetest returns
1 if we encounter unsupported results) make sense for
the unresolved case too?

Thanks!

Alan

> Thank you,
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Fixes: 646f01ccdd59 ("ftrace/selftest: Add tests to test register_ftrace_direct()")
> > Fixes: 4d23e9b4fd2e ("selftests/ftrace: Add trace_printk sample module test")
> > Fixes: 7bc026d6c032 ("selftests/ftrace: Add function filter on module testcase")
> > Fixes: ff431b1390cb ("selftests/ftrace: Add a test to probe module functions")
> > Fixes: 4a075bd4e13f ("selftests/ftrace: Add checkbashisms meta-testcase")
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc  | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc  | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/trace_printk.tc    | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_mod_trace.tc | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_module.tc  | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/selftest/bashisms.tc     | 2 +-
> >  6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc
> > index d75a869..3d6189e 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >  rmmod ftrace-direct ||:
> >  if ! modprobe ftrace-direct ; then
> >    echo "No ftrace-direct sample module - please make CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT=m"
> > -  exit_unresolved;
> > +  exit_unsupported;
> >  fi
> >  
> >  echo "Let the module run a little"
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc
> > index 801ecb6..3d0e3ca 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >  rmmod ftrace-direct ||:
> >  if ! modprobe ftrace-direct ; then
> >    echo "No ftrace-direct sample module - please build with CONFIG_SAMPLE_FTRACE_DIRECT=m"
> > -  exit_unresolved;
> > +  exit_unsupported;
> >  fi
> >  
> >  if [ ! -f kprobe_events ]; then
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/trace_printk.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/trace_printk.tc
> > index b02550b..dd8b10d 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/trace_printk.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/event/trace_printk.tc
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >  rmmod trace-printk ||:
> >  if ! modprobe trace-printk ; then
> >    echo "No trace-printk sample module - please make CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_PRINTK=m"
> > -  exit_unresolved;
> > +  exit_unsupported;
> >  fi
> >  
> >  echo "Waiting for irq work"
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_mod_trace.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_mod_trace.tc
> > index 9330c87..fc22ac0 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_mod_trace.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/ftrace/func_mod_trace.tc
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ echo '*:mod:trace_printk' > set_ftrace_filter
> >  if ! modprobe trace-printk ; then
> >    echo "No trace-printk sample module - please make CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_PRINTK=
> >  m"
> > -  exit_unresolved;
> > +  exit_unsupported;
> >  fi
> >  
> >  : "Wildcard should be resolved after loading module"
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_module.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_module.tc
> > index d861bd7..4e07c69 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_module.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_module.tc
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ rmmod trace-printk ||:
> >  if ! modprobe trace-printk ; then
> >    echo "No trace-printk sample module - please make CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_PRINTK=
> >  m"
> > -  exit_unresolved;
> > +  exit_unsupported;
> >  fi
> >  
> >  MOD=trace_printk
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/selftest/bashisms.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/selftest/bashisms.tc
> > index 1b081e9..1b339bd 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/selftest/bashisms.tc
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/selftest/bashisms.tc
> > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ fi
> >  
> >  if ! which checkbashisms > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> >    echo "No checkbashisms found. skipped."
> > -  exit_unresolved
> > +  exit_unsupported
> >  fi
> >  
> >  checkbashisms $FTRACETEST_ROOT/ftracetest
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>