Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:42:46 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND] selftests/ftrace: Improve integration with kselftest runner |
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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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