[PATCH v2 0/2] ftrace/selftest: clean up failure cases

From: Alan Maguire
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 04:36:28 EST


When running the ftrace selftests, 2 failures and 6 unresolved
cases were observed. The failures can be avoided by setting
a sysctl prior to test execution (fixed in patch 1) and by
having unresolved cases not return 0 from ftracetest by default
since they indicate an absence of testing modules/programs
rather than ftrace issues (patch 2).

The latter are classified as "unresolved" tests, which operate
differently from "unsupported" tests. For unsupported tests,
we note the unsupported count but do not consider the tests
as having failed, whereas with unresolved the test run is
considered to have failed so returns "not ok" when run via
kselftest ("make -C tools/testing/selftest/ftrace run_tests").

Patch 2 aligns the unresolved behaviour with the unsupported;
by default, unresolved outcomes do not trigger overall failure,
but they can if --fail-unresolved is specified.

Changes since v1:

- updated patch 1 to use /proc path instead of sysctl (Masami)
- updated patch 2 to modify unresolved handling in ftracetest
rather than change individual unresolved -> unsupported (Masami)

Alan Maguire (2):
ftrace/selftests: workaround cgroup RT scheduling issues
ftrace/selftest: make unresolved cases cause failure if
--fail-unresolved set

tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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