Re: [PATCH] tests/igt: dmesg noise is a kernel failure

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On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:06:31AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> At least when testing the kernel. In normal programs pretty much all
> the dmesg noise would simply be replaced by debug asserts, but in the
> kernel we try rely hard to not fall over minor inconsistencies.
> 
> Still for CI purposes there's not really a difference, hence don't
> treat it as such.
> 
> Motivated since once again I've seen a statistics where this was split
> up, and then a reduction of "failures" (but in reality just trading
> them in for more "warnings") praised as success.
> 
> v2: Clamp to "dmesg-fail" to keep dmesg noise easily identifiable
> (Ville).
> 
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: jari.tahvanainen@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Petri Latvala <petri.latvala@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tests/igt.py | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/igt.py b/tests/igt.py
> index 7ebb03646b50..21e55e115654 100644
> --- a/tests/igt.py
> +++ b/tests/igt.py
> @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ class IGTTest(Test):
>          else:
>              self.result.result = 'fail'
>  
> +        # all dmesg noise is considered a test failure when testing the kernel
> +        if self.result.dmesg
> +            self.result.result = 'dmesg-fail'

This is changing a fail to dmesg-fail. I hate that.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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