From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: "tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com" <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] selftests/resctrl: Return KSFT_SKIP(4) if resctrl filessystem is not supported or resctrl is not run as root
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 16:39:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c55e7903-aeb5-c117-6e56-c93e0728e46e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <TYAPR01MB63303777416D1D3C0EF066278B689@TYAPR01MB6330.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>
Hi Shaopeng Tan,
On 11/30/2021 6:36 PM, tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com wrote:
> Hi Reinette
>
>> (subject line and commit message: filessystem -> file system)
> Thanks.
>
>> On 11/10/2021 1:33 AM, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
>>> From: "Tan, Shaopeng" <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>>
>>> To unify the return code of resctrl_tests with the return code of
>>> selftest set, return KSFT_SKIP (4) if resctrl filessystem is not
>>> supported or resctrl is not run as root.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate how changing ksft_exit_fail_msg() to
>> ksft_exit_skip() accomplishes the goal of unifying the return code?
>> What is wrong with using ksft_exit_fail_msg()?
>
> In selftest framwork,
> if a test need root privileges, but it is run as user privileges,
> the test result will counted as a SKIP item, instead of a FAIL item.
Thank you for the details. I think it is important to highlight that a
skipped test is marked as successful to not unnecessarily report a
feature failure when there actually is a failure in the test environment.
Reinette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-02 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-10 9:33 [PATCH 0/3] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl_tests into kselftest set Shaopeng Tan
2021-11-10 9:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] selftests/resctrl: Make resctrl_tests run using kselftest framework Shaopeng Tan
2021-11-29 19:27 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 2:36 ` tan.shaopeng
2021-12-02 0:18 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-03 7:21 ` tan.shaopeng
2021-12-03 23:08 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-06 6:57 ` tan.shaopeng
2021-12-06 15:23 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-11-10 9:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] selftests/resctrl: Return KSFT_SKIP(4) if resctrl filessystem is not supported or resctrl is not run as root Shaopeng Tan
2021-11-29 19:27 ` Reinette Chatre
2021-12-01 2:36 ` tan.shaopeng
2021-12-02 0:39 ` Reinette Chatre [this message]
2021-11-10 9:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests/resctrl: Kill the child process created by fork() when the SIGTERM signal comes Shaopeng Tan
2021-11-24 11:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl_tests into kselftest set tan.shaopeng
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