Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Fix test result reporting in gup_longterm

On 15.05.25 10:57, Mark Brown wrote:

The kselftest framework uses the string logged when a test result is reported as the unique identifier for a test, using it to track test results between runs. The gup_longterm test completely fails to follow this pattern, it runs a single test function repeatedly with various parameters but each result report is a string logging an error message which is fixed between runs.

As the person who wrote that test (that you apparently didn't CC for some reason), what exactly is the problem with that?

We run tests. If all pass, we're happy, if one fails, we investigate.