Re: [PATCH 1/2] fstests: Always dump dmesg for failed test cases

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On 2020/2/9 下午11:48, Eryu Guan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:09:37PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> When hard-to-hit bugs happened, we really want every piece of info to
>> help us debugging.
>>
>> Although we already have KEEP_DMESG config, not everyone is utilizing
>> it, thus when hard-to-hit bugs happened, one could only set it and retry
>> until next hit.
>>
>> This patch will change the behavior by always dumping the dmesg for
>> failed tests, so that developers can always get extra info from any
>> failure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  check | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/check b/check
>> index 2e148e5776e5..e580b2249f06 100755
>> --- a/check
>> +++ b/check
>> @@ -840,6 +840,9 @@ for section in $HOST_OPTIONS_SECTIONS; do
>>  
>>  	# make sure we record the status of the last test we ran.
>>  	if $err ; then
>> +		if [ ! -f $seqres.dmesg ]; then
>> +			_dmesg_since_test_start >$seqres.dmesg
>> +		fi
> 
> So this only saves the dmesg of the last test?
> 
> And I don't think this is necessary, even if it saves the dmesgs of all
> failed tests, this behavior change requires some more diskspace and may
> fulfill / more easily.
> 
> I think if one knows he/she's debugging a hard-to-hit bug, set
> KEEP_DMESG. Or again, make "save dmesg of every failed test" a tunable
> behavior.

Makes sense.

As I just went the same solution.

Thanks,
Qu
> 
> Thanks,
> Eryu
> 
>>  		bad="$bad $seqnum"
>>  		n_bad=`expr $n_bad + 1`
>>  		tc_status="fail"
>> -- 
>> 2.24.1
>>

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