Re: [PATCH net v9 4/4] selftest: netcons: add test for netconsole over bonded interfaces

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 07:56:50AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> This patch adds a selftest that verifies netconsole functionality
> over bonded network interfaces using netdevsim. It sets up two bonded
> interfaces acting as transmit (TX) and receive (RX) ends, placed in
> separate network namespaces. The test sends kernel log messages and
> verifies that they are properly received on the bonded RX interfaces
> with both IPv4 and IPv6, and using basic and extended netconsole
> formats.
> 
> This patchset aims to test a long-standing netpoll subsystem where
> netpoll has multiple users. (in this case netconsole and bonding). A
> similar selftest has been discussed in [1] and [2].
> 
> This test also tries to enable bonding and netpoll in different order,
> just to guarantee that all the possibilities are exercised.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250905-netconsole_torture-v3-0-875c7febd316@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/96b940137a50e5c387687bb4f57de8b0435a653f.1404857349.git.decot@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2]
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, my understanding is that this address Paolo's review of v7.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>

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> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/sh/lib_netcons.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/sh/lib_netcons.sh

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> @@ -137,15 +145,17 @@ function _create_dynamic_target() {
>  	then
>  		echo 1 > "${NCPATH}"/extended
>  	fi
> +}
>  
> +function create_and_enable_dynamic_target() {
> +	_create_dynamic_target "${FORMAT}" "${NCPATH}"
>  	echo 1 > "${NCPATH}"/enabled
> -
>  }
>  
>  function create_dynamic_target() {
>  	local FORMAT=${1:-"extended"}
>  	local NCPATH=${2:-"$NETCONS_PATH"}
> -	_create_dynamic_target "${FORMAT}" "${NCPATH}"
> +	create_and_enable_dynamic_target "${FORMAT}" "${NCPATH}"

Sorry for not noticing this when I looked over v8.
It's not that important and I don't think it should block progress.

create_and_enable_dynamic_target() seems to only be used here.
If so, perhaps the 'enabled' line could simply be added to
create_dynamic_target() instead of creating adding
create_and_enable_dynamic_target().

>  
>  	# This will make sure that the kernel was able to
>  	# load the netconsole driver configuration. The console message

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