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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	David Gow <davidgow@google.com>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: Force the use of the 'tty' console for UML
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:21:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X/SSJQ+I5zEMaYYJ@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ae7779c-15c5-0474-5840-44531dcf1d94@linuxfoundation.org>

On Mon 2021-01-04 09:23:57, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 12/22/20 4:11 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:39:00PM -0800, David Gow wrote:
> > > kunit_tool relies on the UML console outputting printk() output to the
> > > tty in order to get results. Since the default console driver could
> > > change, pass 'console=tty' to the kernel.
> > > 
> > > This is triggered by a change[1] to use ttynull as a fallback console
> > > driver which -- by chance or by design -- seems to have changed the
> > > default console output on UML, breaking kunit_tool. While this may be
> > > fixed, we should be less fragile to such changes in the default.
> > > 
> > > [1]:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=757055ae8dedf5333af17b3b5b4b70ba9bc9da4e
> > 
> > Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> 
> Thank you all. Now in linux-kselftest kunit-fixes branch.
> 
> Will send this up for rc3.
> 
> Sorry for the delay - have been away from the keyboard for a
> bit.

JFYI, I am not sure that this is the right solution. I am
looking into it, see
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/X%2FSRA1P8t+ONZFKb@alley/
for more details.

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-05 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-22  7:39 [PATCH] kunit: tool: Force the use of the 'tty' console for UML David Gow
2020-12-22 11:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-04 16:23   ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-05 16:21     ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2021-01-05 16:34       ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-05 18:57         ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-05 19:52           ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-06  4:29             ` David Gow
2021-01-07 16:53               ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-07 18:13                 ` Shuah Khan
2020-12-27 20:00 ` Brendan Higgins

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