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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] selftests/ftrace: Improve integration with kselftest runner
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:19:30 +0100
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> The ftrace selftests do not currently produce KTAP output, they produce a
> custom format much nicer for human consumption. This means that when run in
> automated test systems we just get a single result for the suite as a whole
> rather than recording results for individual test cases, making it harder
> to look at the test data and masking things like inappropriate skips.
>
> Address this by adding support for KTAP output to the ftracetest script and
> providing a trivial wrapper which will be invoked by the kselftest runner
> to generate output in this format by default, users using ftracetest
> directly will continue to get the existing output.
>
> This is not the most elegant solution but it is simple and effective. I
> did consider implementing this by post processing the existing output
> format but that felt more complex and likely to result in all output being
> lost if something goes seriously wrong during the run which would not be
> helpful. I did also consider just writing a separate runner script but
> there's enough going on with things like the signal handling for that to
> seem like it would be duplicating too much.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Shuah, care to take this?

-- Steve

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