Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: Make docs tests fail more reliably

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On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:57 AM Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Previously, if rst2man caught errors, then these would be ignored and
> the output file would be written anyway. This would allow developers to
> introduce regressions in the docs comments in the BPF headers.
>
> Additionally, even if you instruct rst2man to fail out, it will still
> write out to the destination target file, so if you ran the tests twice
> in a row it would always pass. Use a temporary file for the initial run
> to ensure that if rst2man fails out under "--strict" mode, subsequent
> runs will not automatically pass.
>
> Tested via ./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile.docs     | 3 ++-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile.docs b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile.docs
> index ccf260021e83..a918790c8f9c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile.docs
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile.docs
> @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ $(OUTPUT)%.$2: $(OUTPUT)%.rst
>  ifndef RST2MAN_DEP
>         $$(error "rst2man not found, but required to generate man pages")
>  endif
> -       $$(QUIET_GEN)rst2man $$< > $$@
> +       $$(QUIET_GEN)rst2man --strict $$< > $$@.tmp
> +       $$(QUIET_GEN)mv $$@.tmp $$@

if something goes wrong this .tmp file will be laying around, so we
should at least add it to .gitignore?

>
>  docs-clean-$1:
>         $$(call QUIET_CLEAN, eBPF_$1-manpage)
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh
> index 7eb940a7b2eb..ed12111cd2f0 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_doc_build.sh
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  #!/bin/bash
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +set -e
>
>  # Assume script is located under tools/testing/selftests/bpf/. We want to start
>  # build attempts from the top of kernel repository.
> --
> 2.27.0
>



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