Message ID | cover.1711385795.git.petrm@nvidia.com |
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Series | selftests: Fixes for kernel CI | expand |
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:10 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: > +The forwarding selftests framework uses a number of variables that > +influence its behavior and tools it invokes, and how it invokes them, in > +various ways. A number of these variables can be overridden. The way these > +overridable variables are specified is typically one of the following two > +syntaxes: > + > + : "${VARIABLE:=default_value}" > + VARIABLE=${VARIABLE:=default_value} > + > +Any of these variables can be overridden. Notably net/forwarding/lib.sh and > +net/lib.sh contain a number of overridable variables. > + > +One way of overriding these variables is through the environment: > + > + PAUSE_ON_FAIL=yes ./some_test.sh I like this conversion a lot. Makes me want to propose that we make this a standard feature of kselftest. If "env" file exists in the test directory kselftest would load its contents before running every test. That's more of a broader question to anyone reading on linux-kselftest@ if there's no interest more than happy to merge as is :) > +The variable NETIFS is special. Since it is an array variable, there is no > +way to pass it through the environment. Its value can instead be given as > +consecutive arguments to the selftest: > + > + ./some_test.sh swp{1..8} Did you consider allowing them to be defined as NETIF_0, NETIF_1 etc.? We can have lib.sh convert that into an array with a ugly-but-short loop, it's a bit tempting to get rid of the exception.
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:16 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: > +set_ret() > +{ > + local nret=$1; shift May be worth throwing in a comment that $1 must be a legal ksft ret code, not any exit code from random commands.
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:07 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: > As discussed on the bi-weekly call on Jan 30, and in mailing around > kernel CI effort, some changes are desirable in the suite of forwarding > selftests the better to work with the CI tooling. Excellent. Did you skip CCing netdev@ on purpose or by accident? Feel free to send it to the list without the RFC tag (pw-bot will auto-discard it if it sees RFC).
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:10 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: >> +The forwarding selftests framework uses a number of variables that >> +influence its behavior and tools it invokes, and how it invokes them, in >> +various ways. A number of these variables can be overridden. The way these >> +overridable variables are specified is typically one of the following two >> +syntaxes: >> + >> + : "${VARIABLE:=default_value}" >> + VARIABLE=${VARIABLE:=default_value} >> + >> +Any of these variables can be overridden. Notably net/forwarding/lib.sh and >> +net/lib.sh contain a number of overridable variables. >> + >> +One way of overriding these variables is through the environment: >> + >> + PAUSE_ON_FAIL=yes ./some_test.sh > > I like this conversion a lot. Makes me want to propose that we make this Convention you mean? Nothing was converted, this has always worked. > a standard feature of kselftest. If "env" file exists in the test > directory kselftest would load its contents before running every test. > > That's more of a broader question to anyone reading on linux-kselftest@ > if there's no interest more than happy to merge as is :) > >> +The variable NETIFS is special. Since it is an array variable, there is no >> +way to pass it through the environment. Its value can instead be given as >> +consecutive arguments to the selftest: >> + >> + ./some_test.sh swp{1..8} > > Did you consider allowing them to be defined as NETIF_0, NETIF_1 etc.? > We can have lib.sh convert that into an array with a ugly-but-short > loop, it's a bit tempting to get rid of the exception. The exception is a bit annoying, yeah. But it works today, should stay, and therefore should be documented, so the paragraph won't go away. I use it all the time, too. I basically don't use the config file, I just use the env overrides and the argv interface names. It's very handy. The alternative is also very verbose: NETIF_1=swp1 NETIF_2=swp2 NETIF_3=swp3 [...] ./some_test.sh. Maybe we could do this though? NETIFS="swp1 swp2 swp3 swp4 swp5 swp6 swp7 swp8" ./some_test.sh And like this it won't make you want to pull your hair from all the repetition: NETIFS=$(echo swp{1..8}) ./some_test.sh But NETIFS is going to be a special case one way or another. That you need to specify it through several variables, or a variable with a special value, means you need to explain it as a special case in the documentation. At which point you have two exceptions, and an interaction between them, to describe.
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:16 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: >> +set_ret() >> +{ >> + local nret=$1; shift > > May be worth throwing in a comment that $1 must be a legal ksft ret > code, not any exit code from random commands. Hmm, yeah. I'll rename to ret_set_ksft_status() and the variable to ksft_status, I think that will be harder to miss than a comment. The verbosity of the new name doesn't matter, it's an internal helper.
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:07 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: >> As discussed on the bi-weekly call on Jan 30, and in mailing around >> kernel CI effort, some changes are desirable in the suite of forwarding >> selftests the better to work with the CI tooling. > > Excellent. > > Did you skip CCing netdev@ on purpose or by accident? > Feel free to send it to the list without the RFC tag > (pw-bot will auto-discard it if it sees RFC). D'oh, I forgot to toggle my dev tree from internal to external, so it went to nbu-linux-internal instead. I'll resend.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:31:31 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: > Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:10 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: > >> +The forwarding selftests framework uses a number of variables that > >> +influence its behavior and tools it invokes, and how it invokes them, in > >> +various ways. A number of these variables can be overridden. The way these > >> +overridable variables are specified is typically one of the following two > >> +syntaxes: > >> + > >> + : "${VARIABLE:=default_value}" > >> + VARIABLE=${VARIABLE:=default_value} > >> + > >> +Any of these variables can be overridden. Notably net/forwarding/lib.sh and > >> +net/lib.sh contain a number of overridable variables. > >> + > >> +One way of overriding these variables is through the environment: > >> + > >> + PAUSE_ON_FAIL=yes ./some_test.sh > > > > I like this conversion a lot. Makes me want to propose that we make this > > Convention you mean? Yes, sorry > Nothing was converted, this has always worked. Right, for forwarding and perhaps net. > > a standard feature of kselftest. If "env" file exists in the test > > directory kselftest would load its contents before running every test. > > > > That's more of a broader question to anyone reading on linux-kselftest@ > > if there's no interest more than happy to merge as is :) > > > >> +The variable NETIFS is special. Since it is an array variable, there is no > >> +way to pass it through the environment. Its value can instead be given as > >> +consecutive arguments to the selftest: > >> + > >> + ./some_test.sh swp{1..8} > > > > Did you consider allowing them to be defined as NETIF_0, NETIF_1 etc.? > > We can have lib.sh convert that into an array with a ugly-but-short > > loop, it's a bit tempting to get rid of the exception. > > The exception is a bit annoying, yeah. But it works today, should stay, > and therefore should be documented, so the paragraph won't go away. I > use it all the time, too. I basically don't use the config file, I just > use the env overrides and the argv interface names. It's very handy. > > The alternative is also very verbose: > > NETIF_1=swp1 NETIF_2=swp2 NETIF_3=swp3 [...] ./some_test.sh. > > Maybe we could do this though? > > NETIFS="swp1 swp2 swp3 swp4 swp5 swp6 swp7 swp8" ./some_test.sh > > And like this it won't make you want to pull your hair from all the > repetition: > > NETIFS=$(echo swp{1..8}) ./some_test.sh > > But NETIFS is going to be a special case one way or another. That you > need to specify it through several variables, or a variable with a > special value, means you need to explain it as a special case in the > documentation. At which point you have two exceptions, and an > interaction between them, to describe. I think there's some value in passing all inputs in the same way (thru env rather than argv). I guess it's subjective, you're coding it up, so you can pick.
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:31:31 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: >> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes: >> >> > a standard feature of kselftest. If "env" file exists in the test >> > directory kselftest would load its contents before running every test. >> > >> > That's more of a broader question to anyone reading on linux-kselftest@ >> > if there's no interest more than happy to merge as is :) >> > >> > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:29:10 +0100 Petr Machata wrote: >> > >> >> +The variable NETIFS is special. Since it is an array variable, there is no >> >> +way to pass it through the environment. Its value can instead be given as >> >> +consecutive arguments to the selftest: >> >> + >> >> + ./some_test.sh swp{1..8} >> > >> > Did you consider allowing them to be defined as NETIF_0, NETIF_1 etc.? >> > We can have lib.sh convert that into an array with a ugly-but-short >> > loop, it's a bit tempting to get rid of the exception. >> >> Maybe we could do this though? >> >> NETIFS="swp1 swp2 swp3 swp4 swp5 swp6 swp7 swp8" ./some_test.sh >> >> But NETIFS is going to be a special case one way or another. That you >> need to specify it through several variables, or a variable with a >> special value, means you need to explain it as a special case in the >> documentation. At which point you have two exceptions, and an >> interaction between them, to describe. > > I think there's some value in passing all inputs in the same way (thru > env rather than argv). I guess it's subjective, you're coding it up, > so you can pick. I kinda like the NETIFS="a b c" approach. If somebody wants to code that up, I'll be happy to review :) I might get around to it at some point.