Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: Make each test individually selectable

From: Kees Cook <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:57:26 -0700

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 02:57:34PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 01:56, Kees Cook <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > Currently with run_kselftest.sh there is no way to choose which test
> > we could run. All the tests listed in kselftest-list.txt are all run
> > every time. This patch enhanced the run_kselftest.sh to make the test
> > collections (or tests) individually selectable. e.g.:
> >
> > $ ./run_kselftest.sh -c seccomp -t timers:posix_timers -t timers:nanosleep
> >
> > Additionally adds a way to list all known tests with "-l", usage
> > with "-h", and perform a dry run without running tests with "-n".
> 
> 
> While testing this patch set on LAVA the skip test functionality is not working.
> We may have to revisit test definitions kselftest skip logic
> or else
> may add one more option to skip a given test on run_kselftest.sh script.
> 
> ref:
> https://github.com/Linaro/test-definitions/blob/master/automated/linux/kselftest/kselftest.sh#L196

Yes, LAVA's hack to skip tests needs to be adjusted. Here's what it
should probably look like:
https://github.com/Linaro/test-definitions/pull/231

-- 
Kees Cook