Re: [PATCH] fstests: common: Keep $seqres.dmesg in $RESULT_DIR

[Qu WenRuo <wqu@suse.com>]

On 2019/11/25 上午12:15, Eryu Guan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:59:38PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> Currently fstests will remove $seqres.dmesg if nothing wrong happened.
>> It saves some space, but sometimes it may not provide good enough
>> history for developers to check.
>> E.g. some unexpected dmesg from fs, but not serious enough to be caught
>> by current filter.
>>
>> So instead of deleting the ordinary $seqres.dmesg, just keep them, so
>> we can archive them for later review.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
> 
> This looks fine to me, but it causes more disk space consumption and may
> eat all rootfs space quickly and unexpectedly.
> 
> I suggest we add an option to control the behavior, and default behavior
> is to delete the dmesg file.

Sure, I'll add an option to change the behavior in next version.

Thanks,
Qu

> 
> Thanks,
> Eryu
> 
>> ---
>>  common/rc | 4 +---
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
>> index b988e912..59a339a6 100644
>> --- a/common/rc
>> +++ b/common/rc
>> @@ -3625,10 +3625,8 @@ _check_dmesg()
>>  	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>>  		_dump_err "_check_dmesg: something found in dmesg (see $seqres.dmesg)"
>>  		return 1
>> -	else
>> -		rm -f $seqres.dmesg
>> -		return 0
>>  	fi
>> +	return 0
>>  }
>>  
>>  # capture the kmemleak report
>> -- 
>> 2.23.0
>>