On Sat 2024-12-21 01:05:36, Siddharth Menon wrote:
> Currently, kselftests does not have a generalised mechanism to skip
> compilation
> and run tests when required kernel configuration flags are missing.
>
> This patch introduces a check to validate the presence of required config
> flags
> specified in the selftest config files. In case scripts/config or the current
> kernel config is not found, this check is skipped.
>
> In order to view the missing config options required to compile the test,
> set the environment variable LOCALMODCONFIG_DEBUG=1.
As I wrote in the review for the 1st patch, I would prefer to print
the missing config options by default. The LOCALMODCONFIG_DEBUG
variable is pretty non-standard and hard to memorize thing.
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> @@ -97,7 +97,14 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS := $(patsubst
> %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS))
> TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED := $(patsubst
> %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED))
> TEST_GEN_FILES := $(patsubst %,$(OUTPUT)/%,$(TEST_GEN_FILES))
>
> -all: $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED) $(TEST_GEN_FILES) \
> +TEST_DIR := $(shell pwd)
> +
> +check_config_deps:
> + @$(selfdir)/mktest.pl $(TEST_DIR)/config || \
> + { echo "Skipping test: $(notdir $(TEST_DIR))"; exit 1; }
I would write a more meaningful message, e.g.
{ echo "Skipping test because of missing kernel features: $(notdir
$(TEST_DIR))"; exit 1; }
> +
> +all: check_config_deps $(TEST_GEN_PROGS) $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED)
> $(TEST_GEN_FILES) \
> $(if $(TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR),gen_mods_dir)
>
> define RUN_TESTS
> @@ -228,4 +235,4 @@ $(OUTPUT)/%:%.S
> $(LINK.S) $^ $(LDLIBS) -o $@
> endif
Otherwise, it seems to work well for the livepatching selftests.
I guess that it might prevent running some selftests because of
too strict or outdated information in some
tools/testing/selftests/<project>/config files. So that it might
cause regressions.
But I think that this is the right way to go. I am just not sure
whether we should wait for complains from linux-next. Or if we
should be more proactive in fixing the various <project>/config
files.
Best Regards,
Petr
