Merge branch 'selftests-fixes-for-kernel-ci'
Petr Machata says:
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selftests: Fixes for kernel CI
As discussed on the bi-weekly call on Jan 30, and in mailing around
kernel CI effort, some changes are desirable in the suite of forwarding
selftests the better to work with the CI tooling. Namely:
- The forwarding selftests use a configuration file where names of
interfaces are defined and various variables can be overridden. There
is also forwarding.config.sample that users can use as a template to
refer to when creating the config file. What happens a fair bit is
that users either do not know about this at all, or simply forget, and
are confused by cryptic failures about interfaces that cannot be
created.
In patches #1 - #3 have lib.sh just be the single source of truth with
regards to which variables exist. That includes the topology variables
which were previously only in the sample file, and any "tweak
variables", such as what tools to use, sleep times, etc.
forwarding.config.sample then becomes just a placeholder with a couple
examples. Unless specific HW should be exercised, or specific tools
used, the defaults are usually just fine.
- Several net/forwarding/ selftests (and one net/ one) cannot be run on
veth pairs, they need an actual HW interface to run on. They are
generic in the sense that any capable HW should pass them, which is
why they have been put to net/forwarding/ as opposed to drivers/net/,
but they do not generalize to veth. The fact that these tests are in
net/forwarding/, but still complaining when run, is confusing.
In patches #4 - #6 move these tests to a new directory
drivers/net/hw.
- The following patches extend the codebase to handle well test results
other than pass and fail.
Patch #7 is preparatory. It converts several log_test_skip to XFAIL,
so that tests do not spuriously end up returning non-0 when they
are not supposed to.
In patches #8 - #10, introduce some missing ksft constants, then support
having those constants in RET, and then finally in EXIT_STATUS.
- The traffic scheduler tests generate a large amount of network traffic
to test the behavior of the scheduler. This demands a relatively
high-performance computer. On slow machines, such as with a debugging
kernel, the test would spuriously fail.
It can still be useful to "go through the motions" though, to possibly
catch bugs in setup of the scheduler graph and passing packets around.
Thus we still want to run the tests, just with lowered demands.
To that end, in patches #11 - #12, introduce an environment variable
KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW, with obvious meaning. Tests can then make checks
more lenient, such as mark failures as XFAIL. A helper, xfail_on_slow,
is provided to mark performance-sensitive parts of the selftest.
- In patch #13, use a similar mechanism to mark a NH group stats
selftest to XFAIL HW stats tests when run on VETH pairs.
- All these changes complicate the hitherto straightforward logging and
checking logic, so in patch #14, add a selftest that checks this
functionality in lib.sh.
v1 (vs. an RFC circulated through linux-kselftest):
- Patch #9:
- Clarify intended usage by s/set_ret/ret_set_ksft_status/,
s/nret/ksft_status/
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1711464583.git.petrm@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: 
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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