In order to facilitate debugging of issues from automated runs of the ftrace
selftests turn on verbose logging by default when run from the kselftest
runner. This is primarily used by automated systems where developers may
not have direct access to the system so defaulting to providing diagnostic
information which might help debug problems seems like a good idea.
When tests pass no extra output is generated, when they fail a full log of
the test run is provided. Since this really is rather verbose when there are
a large number of test failures or output is slow (eg, with a serial
console) this could substantially increase the run time for the tests which
might present problems with timeout detection for affected systems,
hopefully we keep the tests running well enough that this is not too much
of an issue.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
