Re: [i-g-t,v1,2/2] runner: Create new option for incremental results

["Knop, Ryszard" <ryszard.knop@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 18:15 +0200, Kamil Konieczny wrote:
> Create new option --inc-results which will make results.json
> after each test was run, not only after last one.
> 
> Please note that this could be somewhat misleading when a kernel
> panic happens during an execution, as a real test causing this
> will not be there. In such cases one still needs to run
> igt_results to add that last one to results.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamil Konieczny <kamil.konieczny@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  runner/executor.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
>  runner/settings.c |  8 ++++++++
>  runner/settings.h |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/runner/executor.c b/runner/executor.c
> index b204fdffc..7c923bed3 100644
> --- a/runner/executor.c
> +++ b/runner/executor.c
> @@ -2045,6 +2045,11 @@ static bool clear_old_results(char *path)
>  		return false;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (remove_file(dirfd, "results.old")) {
> +		errf("Error clearing results.old : %m\n");
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +
>  	for (i = 0; true; i++) {
>  		struct stat st;
>  
> @@ -2484,6 +2489,9 @@ static bool generate_results_with_endtime(int resdirfd, struct settings *setting
>  	double end_time;
>  	bool ret;
>  
> +	if (!settings->inc_results)
> +		return true;
> +
>  	remove_file(resdirfd, "results.bak");
>  	renameat(resdirfd, "results.json", resdirfd, "results.bak");
>  
> @@ -2758,12 +2766,11 @@ bool execute(struct execute_state *state,
>  				return false;
>  
>  			return execute(state, settings, job_list);
> -		}
> -
> -		/* it should check option, also measure time taken */
> -		if (!generate_results_with_endtime(resdirfd, settings)) {
> -			status = false;
> -			break;
> +		} else {
> +			if (!generate_results_with_endtime(resdirfd, settings)) {
> +				status = false;
> +				break;
> +			}
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/runner/settings.c b/runner/settings.c
> index 3ccf71870..c52fed92b 100644
> --- a/runner/settings.c
> +++ b/runner/settings.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ enum {
>  	OPT_DISK_USAGE_LIMIT,
>  	OPT_TEST_LIST,
>  	OPT_IGNORE_MISSING,
> +	OPT_INC_RESULTS,
>  	OPT_PIGLIT_DMESG,
>  	OPT_DMESG_WARN_LEVEL,
>  	OPT_OVERALL_TIMEOUT,
> @@ -309,6 +310,7 @@ static const char *usage_str =
>  	"                        Set an environment variable for the test process.\n"
>  	"                        If only the key is provided, the current value is read\n"
>  	"                        from the runner's environment (and saved for resumes).\n"
> +	"  --inc-results         Save results incrementally after each test was run\n"

Can this be named something like "--save-results-after-each-test" or
something like that? It's not really "incremental", the entire
results.json is getting generated from scratch on each run, and a
longer name is a bit more descriptive.

>  	"  -L, --list-all        List all matching subtests instead of running\n"
>  	"  --collect-code-cov    Enables gcov-based collect of code coverage for tests.\n"
>  	"                        Requires --collect-script FILENAME\n"
> @@ -693,6 +695,7 @@ bool parse_options(int argc, char **argv,
>  		{"abort-on-monitored-error", optional_argument, NULL, OPT_ABORT_ON_ERROR},
>  		{"disk-usage-limit", required_argument, NULL, OPT_DISK_USAGE_LIMIT},
>  		{"facts", no_argument, NULL, OPT_FACTS},
> +		{"inc-results", no_argument, NULL, OPT_INC_RESULTS},
>  		{"kmemleak", optional_argument, NULL, OPT_KMEMLEAK},
>  		{"sync", no_argument, NULL, OPT_SYNC},
>  		{"log-level", required_argument, NULL, OPT_LOG_LEVEL},
> @@ -768,6 +771,9 @@ bool parse_options(int argc, char **argv,
>  		case OPT_FACTS:
>  			settings->facts = true;
>  			break;
> +		case OPT_INC_RESULTS:
> +			settings->inc_results = true;
> +			break;
>  		case OPT_KMEMLEAK:
>  			/* The default is once */
>  			settings->kmemleak = true;
> @@ -1235,6 +1241,7 @@ bool serialize_settings(struct settings *settings)
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, dry_run);
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, allow_non_root);
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, facts);
> +	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, inc_results);
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, kmemleak);
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, kmemleak_each);
>  	SERIALIZE_INT(f, settings, sync);
> @@ -1353,6 +1360,7 @@ bool read_settings_from_file(struct settings *settings, FILE *f)
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, dry_run);
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, allow_non_root);
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, facts);
> +		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, inc_results);
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, kmemleak);
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, kmemleak_each);
>  		PARSE_INT(settings, name, val, sync);
> diff --git a/runner/settings.h b/runner/settings.h
> index 6c58c3282..10f95f286 100644
> --- a/runner/settings.h
> +++ b/runner/settings.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct settings {
>  	struct igt_list_head env_vars;
>  	struct igt_vec hook_strs;
>  	bool facts;
> +	bool inc_results;
>  	bool kmemleak;
>  	bool kmemleak_each;
>  	bool sync;

Thanks, Ryszard