On 04/09, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
The discussion started about running new tests on older kernels. As this is a feature and not a bug fix that obviously fails on older kernels.
OK, I see... please see below.
So something like the uncompiled below should work.
Hmm... this patch doesn't apply to Linus's tree...
It seems that this is because in your tree check_timer_distribution() does
if (timer_delete(id)) { ksft_perror("Can't delete timer"); return 0; }
while in Linus's tree it returns -1 if timer_delete() fails. Nevermind.
Thomas, I am almost shy to continue this discussion and waste your time ;) But ...
+static bool check_kernel_version(unsigned int min_major, unsigned int min_minor) +{
- unsigned int major, minor;
- struct utsname info;
- uname(&info);
- if (sscanf(info.release, "%u.%u.", &major, &minor) != 2)
ksft_exit_fail();- return major > min_major || (major == min_major && minor >= min_minor);
+}
this looks useful regardless. Perhaps it should be moved into tools/testing/selftests/kselftest.h as ksft_ck_kernel_version() ?
+static int check_timer_distribution(void) +{
- const char *errmsg;
- if (!check_kernel_version(6, 3)) {
ksft_test_result_skip("check signal distribution (old kernel)\n");
...
- ksft_test_result(!ctd_failed, "check signal distribution\n");
Perhaps
if (!ctd_failed) ksft_test_result_pass("check signal distribution\n"); else if (check_kernel_version(6, 3)) ksft_test_result_fail("check signal distribution\n"); else ksft_test_result_skip("check signal distribution (old kernel)\n");
makes more sense?
This way it can be used on the older kernels with bcb7ee79029d backported.
Oleg.