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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 02/31] report: Add known failure reporting option
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 09:25:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aed85321-7e8e-4202-9f91-791229ef9455@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240504122841.1177683-3-npiggin@gmail.com>

On 04/05/2024 14.28, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> There are times we would like to test a function that is known to fail
> in some conditions due to a bug in implementation (QEMU, KVM, or even
> hardware). It would be nice to count these as known failures and not
> report a summary failure.
> 
> xfail is not the same thing, xfail means failure is required and a pass
> causes the test to fail. So add kfail for known failures.

Actually, I wonder whether that's not rather a bug in report_xfail() 
instead. Currently, when you call report_xfail(true, ...), the result is 
*always* counted as a failure, either as an expected failure (if the test 
really failed), or as a normal failure (if the test succeeded). What's the 
point of counting a successful test as a failure??

Andrew, you've originally introduced report_xfail in commit a5af7b8a67e, 
could you please comment on this?

IMHO we should rather do something like this instead:

diff --git a/lib/report.c b/lib/report.c
--- a/lib/report.c
+++ b/lib/report.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static void va_report(const char *msg_fmt,
                 skipped++;
         else if (xfail && !pass)
                 xfailures++;
-       else if (xfail || !pass)
+       else if (!xfail && !pass)
                 failures++;

         spin_unlock(&lock);

  Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-06  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-04 12:28 [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 00/31] powerpc improvements Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 01/31] doc: update unittests doc Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-06  7:03   ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-07  3:57     ` Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-06  8:02   ` Andrew Jones
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 02/31] report: Add known failure reporting option Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-06  7:25   ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2024-05-06  8:01     ` Andrew Jones
2024-05-06 10:19       ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 03/31] powerpc: Mark known failing tests as kfail Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-06  7:37   ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-07  4:07     ` Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-07 11:44       ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 04/31] powerpc: Update unittests for latest QEMU version Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 05/31] powerpc/sprs: Specify SPRs with data rather than code Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 06/31] powerpc/sprs: Avoid taking PMU interrupts caused by register fuzzing Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 07/31] scripts: allow machine option to be specified in unittests.cfg Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-07 15:08   ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-08 12:27     ` Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-08 12:55       ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-08 12:58         ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-08 13:36           ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-09  5:44             ` Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 08/31] scripts: Accommodate powerpc powernv machine differences Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 09/31] powerpc: Support powernv machine with QEMU TCG Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 10/31] powerpc: Fix emulator illegal instruction test for powernv Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 11/31] powerpc/sprs: Test hypervisor registers on powernv machine Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 12/31] powerpc: general interrupt tests Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-07 12:12   ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 13/31] powerpc: Add rtas stop-self support Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 14/31] powerpc: Remove broken SMP exception stack setup Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 15/31] powerpc: Enable page alloc operations Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 16/31] powerpc: add SMP and IPI support Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 17/31] powerpc: Add cpu_relax Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-07 13:44   ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 18/31] powerpc: Permit ACCEL=tcg,thread=single Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 19/31] powerpc: Avoid using larx/stcx. in spinlocks when only one CPU is running Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 20/31] powerpc: Add atomics tests Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 21/31] powerpc: Add timebase tests Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 22/31] powerpc: Add MMU support Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 23/31] common/sieve: Use vmalloc.h for setup_mmu definition Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 24/31] common/sieve: Support machines without MMU Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 25/31] powerpc: Add sieve.c common test Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 26/31] powerpc: add usermode support Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 27/31] powerpc: add pmu tests Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 28/31] configure: Make arch_libdir a first-class entity Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 29/31] powerpc: Remove remnants of ppc64 directory and build structure Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 30/31] powerpc: Add facility to query TCG or KVM host Nicholas Piggin
2024-05-04 12:28 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 31/31] powerpc: gitlab CI update Nicholas Piggin

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