Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] kselftest: Add new test for detecting unprobed Devicetree devices

[Aishwarya TCV]

On 28/08/2023 22:13, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> Introduce a new kselftest to detect devices that were declared in the
> Devicetree, and are expected to be probed by a driver, but weren't.
> 
> The test uses two lists: a list of compatibles that can match a
> Devicetree device to a driver, and a list of compatibles that should be
> ignored. The first is automatically generated by the
> dt-extract-compatibles script, and is run as part of building this test.
> The list of compatibles to ignore is a hand-crafted list to capture the
> few exceptions of compatibles that are expected to match a driver but
> not be bound to it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Hi Nicolas,

Currently when building kselftest against next-master and
mainline-master the below build error is observed. A bisect (full log
below) identified this patch as introducing the failure.

Full log from a failure:

https://storage.kernelci.org/mainline/master/v6.6-9152-gdeefd5024f07/arm64/defconfig%2Bkselftest/gcc-10/logs/kselftest.log

make[4]: Entering directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/dt'
/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/../../../scripts/dtc/dt-extract-compatibles
-d /tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/../../.. >
/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/dt/compatible_list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/../../../scripts/dtc/dt-extract-compatibles",
line 107, in <module>
    compat_ignore_list.extend(parse_compatibles_to_ignore(f))
  File
"/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/../../../scripts/dtc/dt-extract-compatibles",
line 67, in parse_compatibles_to_ignore
    with open(file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links:
'/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/../../../build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/build/source/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/vphn/vphn.c'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:12:
/tmp/kci/linux/build/kselftest/dt/compatible_list] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/kci/linux/tools/testing/selftests/dt'


The bisect log:

git bisect start
# good: [f9a7eda4d73d44dc1d17d05cdc9aeb9fc5660740] Merge tag
'hwmon-for-v6.7' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging
git bisect good f9a7eda4d73d44dc1d17d05cdc9aeb9fc5660740
# bad: [8bc9e6515183935fa0cccaf67455c439afe4982b] Merge tag
'devicetree-for-6.7' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux
git bisect bad 8bc9e6515183935fa0cccaf67455c439afe4982b
# good: [0a6d7f8275f255eda823c0f0b61d024f6f5b483d] Merge branch
'clk-cleanup' into clk-next
git bisect good 0a6d7f8275f255eda823c0f0b61d024f6f5b483d
# good: [fe4ae2fab00b4751265580c5865fdf23b62d80b3] Merge tag
'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux
git bisect good fe4ae2fab00b4751265580c5865fdf23b62d80b3
# good: [fc7b34ae1347f4eb36f065458e53d6065cd85928] power: supply:
wm831x_backup: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
git bisect good fc7b34ae1347f4eb36f065458e53d6065cd85928
# bad: [f2147371a83c6de1128093c163dc17bc61096362] dt-bindings: soc: fsl:
cpm_qe: cpm1-scc-qmc: Fix example property name
git bisect bad f2147371a83c6de1128093c163dc17bc61096362
# bad: [22c3888e55bf5c86be536a3d9e06a50e7bf3a39f] dt-bindings: watchdog:
atmel,at91rm9200-wdt: convert txt to yaml
git bisect bad 22c3888e55bf5c86be536a3d9e06a50e7bf3a39f
# bad: [780967feb626c6f4efa1e4b3532f1be83884cd76] dt-bindings: Add
Marantec vendor prefix
git bisect bad 780967feb626c6f4efa1e4b3532f1be83884cd76
# bad: [bc17fd92c1eb7589f1f3df1893e9f62bb35b8cc8] dt-bindings:
interrupt-controller: qcom,pdc: document qcom,sm4450-pdc
git bisect bad bc17fd92c1eb7589f1f3df1893e9f62bb35b8cc8
# good: [365ba0c7a73cce407bf40cdf9900b86b945d4acb] dt:
dt-extract-compatibles: Add flag for driver matching compatibles
git bisect good 365ba0c7a73cce407bf40cdf9900b86b945d4acb
# bad: [14571ab1ad213de59b3726a40aea7ca0365bf445] kselftest: Add new
test for detecting unprobed Devicetree devices
git bisect bad 14571ab1ad213de59b3726a40aea7ca0365bf445
# first bad commit: [14571ab1ad213de59b3726a40aea7ca0365bf445]
kselftest: Add new test for detecting unprobed Devicetree devices


Thanks,
Aishwarya