Re: [PATCH] selftests: sync: Skip the test if kernel support is not found

[Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>]

On 05/31/2017 04:40 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The "Sync framework" test doesn't work if the kernel has no support,
> obviously. Rather than reporting a failure, check for the kernel support
> by looking for /sys/kernel/debug/sync/sw_sync, and if not found skip the
> test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Thanks. Applied to linux-kselftest next for 4.13-rc1

-- Shuah

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync_test.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync_test.c
> index 9ea08d9f0b13..62fa666e501a 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sync/sync_test.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <sys/types.h>
> +#include <sys/stat.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>  
>  #include "synctest.h"
> @@ -52,10 +53,22 @@ static int run_test(int (*test)(void), char *name)
>  	exit(test());
>  }
>  
> +static int sync_api_supported(void)
> +{
> +	struct stat sbuf;
> +
> +	return 0 == stat("/sys/kernel/debug/sync/sw_sync", &sbuf);
> +}
> +
>  int main(void)
>  {
>  	int err = 0;
>  
> +	if (!sync_api_supported()) {
> +		printf("SKIP: Sync framework not supported by kernel\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	printf("[RUN]\tTesting sync framework\n");
>  
>  	err += RUN_TEST(test_alloc_timeline);
>