Re: [PATCH v1 9/9] selftests/mm: Run all tests from run_vmtests.sh

[Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>]

On 13/07/2023 16:43, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 04:36:18PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> On 13/07/2023 16:30, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> The results parsers I'm aware of like the LAVA one will DTRT with nested
>>> kselftests since that's required to pull see individual test cases run
>>> by a single binary so it's the common case to see at least one level of
>>> nesting.
> 
>> That's good to hear. But bear in mind that run_vmtests.sh does not use TAP. So
>> you end up with a single top-level test who's result is reported with
>> run_kselftest.sh's TAP output. Then you have a second level (run_vmtests.sh)
>> using custom reporting, then _some_ of the tests invoked use TAP so you
>> sometimes have TAP at level 3. But those tests at level 2 that don't do their
>> own TAP output probably won't be parsed by LAVA?
> 
> I think that should mostly mean that all the tests that don't
> individually produce KTAP output get ignored by parsers and those which
> do produce KTAP output will be seen as nesting one level up from where
> they are (ie, the individual cases will run directly from vmtest),
> though there's likely to be confusion about expected run numbers for
> things that actually pay attention to that.

I suspect it wouldn't be technically dififcult to add a --tap option to
run_vmtests.sh, which would switch the output format to TAP. If people are amenable.

> 
>> Since you agreed to put this into the CI, I was going to call this part "your
>> problem" ;-)
> 
> It'll run, the results are a different story. :P