The dmesg utility already comes with a command line switch to omit kernel timestamps, let's use it instead of applying an extra regex to filter them out.
Now without the '[timestamp]: ' prefix at the beginning of the log entry, revise the filtering regex to search for the 'livepatch:' subsystem prefix at the beginning of the line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com --- tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README | 8 ++++---- tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README index 0942dd5826f8..79dafab03017 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/README @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Adding tests See the common functions.sh file for the existing collection of utility functions, most importantly setup_config(), start_test() and check_result(). The latter function greps the kernel's ring buffer for -"livepatch:" and "test_klp" strings, so tests be sure to include one of -those strings for result comparison. Other utility functions include -general module loading and livepatch loading helpers (waiting for patch -transitions, sysfs entries, etc.) +the "^livepatch:" subsystem prefix and also any "test_klp" strings. +Test log entries need include one of those for result comparison. Other +utility functions include general module loading and livepatch loading +helpers (waiting for patch transitions, sysfs entries, etc.) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh index e84375a33852..83560c3df2ee 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/functions.sh @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ function start_test {
# Save existing dmesg so we can detect new content below SAVED_DMESG=$(mktemp --tmpdir -t klp-dmesg-XXXXXX) - dmesg > "$SAVED_DMESG" + dmesg --notime > "$SAVED_DMESG"
echo -n "TEST: $test ... " } @@ -259,9 +259,8 @@ function check_result { local expect="$*" local result
- result=$(dmesg | diff --changed-group-format='%>' --unchanged-group-format='' "$SAVED_DMESG" - | \ - grep -v 'tainting' | grep -e 'livepatch:' -e 'test_klp' | \ - sed 's/^[[ 0-9.]*] //') + result=$(dmesg --notime | diff --changed-group-format='%>' --unchanged-group-format='' "$SAVED_DMESG" - | \ + grep -v 'tainting' | grep -e '^livepatch:' -e 'test_klp')
if [[ "$expect" == "$result" ]] ; then echo "ok"