[PATCH] tests/nvme: Remove test output for passthrough error logging

Alan Adamson alan.adamson at oracle.com
Wed Nov 16 09:22:22 PST 2022



> On Nov 16, 2022, at 8:48 AM, Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 04:17:03AM +0000, Shinichiro Kawasaki wrote:
>> On Nov 15, 2022 / 16:12, Alan Adamson wrote:
>>> Commit d7ac8dca938c ("nvme: quiet user passthrough command errors")
>>> disabled error logging for passthrough commands so the associated
>>> error output in nvme/039.out should be removed.
>>> 
>>> When an error logging opt-in mechanism for passthrough commands is
>>> provided, the error output can be added back.
>> 
>> Thanks for this quick action. This two-steps approach looks good for me.
>> 
>> I confirmed the fix avoids the failure with v6.1-rc5 kernel. Also, I observe
>> this fix makes the test case fail with v6.0 kernel. I suggest to skip the test
>> case with kernel v6.0 or older, applying the hunk below. Could you repost v2
>> with this change? Or if you want, I can apply it together with v1. Please let
>> me know your preference.
> 
> It sounds like some future case might allow these errors to log in some
> circumstances, so I'm not sure the test case should be so dependent on
> seeing or not seeing these messages. Is there a mechanism to say these
> are optional messages that may or may not show up?

We could just remove the tests for now which would also work for pre-6.1 and add them back
when the future case shows up (Hopefully soon - I’m working on it).  The test will be changed
to test the opted-in and opted-out mechanism.

Alan



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