On Tue, Apr 09 2024 at 13:10, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 04/09, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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. Ooops. >> +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() ? Makes sense. >> +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"); >> return 0; > > .. > >> + 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. Indeed.