[PATCH 1/2] selftests/lkdtm: Don't clear dmesg when running tests

[Michael Ellerman]

It is Very Rude to clear dmesg in test scripts. That's because the
script may be part of a larger test run, and clearing dmesg
potentially destroys the output of other tests.

We can avoid using dmesg -c by saving the content of dmesg before the
test, and then using diff to compare that to the dmesg afterward,
producing a log with just the added lines.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
index dadf819148a4..0b409e187c7b 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
@@ -59,23 +59,25 @@ if [ -z "$expect" ]; then
 	expect="call trace:"
 fi
 
-# Clear out dmesg for output reporting
-dmesg -c >/dev/null
-
 # Prepare log for report checking
-LOG=$(mktemp --tmpdir -t lkdtm-XXXXXX)
+LOG=$(mktemp --tmpdir -t lkdtm-log-XXXXXX)
+DMESG=$(mktemp --tmpdir -t lkdtm-dmesg-XXXXXX)
 cleanup() {
-	rm -f "$LOG"
+	rm -f "$LOG" "$DMESG"
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
+# Save existing dmesg so we can detect new content below
+dmesg > "$DMESG"
+
 # Most shells yell about signals and we're expecting the "cat" process
 # to usually be killed by the kernel. So we have to run it in a sub-shell
 # and silence errors.
 ($SHELL -c 'cat <(echo '"$test"') >'"$TRIGGER" 2>/dev/null) || true
 
 # Record and dump the results
-dmesg -c >"$LOG"
+dmesg | diff --changed-group-format='%>' --unchanged-group-format='' "$DMESG" - > "$LOG" || true
+
 cat "$LOG"
 # Check for expected output
 if egrep -qi "$expect" "$LOG" ; then

base-commit: 192ffb7515839b1cc8457e0a8c1e09783de019d3
-- 
2.25.1