Re: [PATCH 0/5] selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 31 May 2026 16:56:28 +0800 Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@linux.dev> wrote:

> From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
> 
> This series fixes several bugs in the DAMON selftests.  Most are
> trivial but cause tests to silently pass when they shouldn't, or
> fail prematurely on slow machines.

Thank you for sharing these great changes, Kunwu and Lian!

> 
> Patch 1 fixes mutable default arguments in DamonCtx.__init__()
> that cause state to leak between test instances.
> 
> Patch 2 fixes a trailing comma in DamosFilter that turns
> memcg_path from a string into a tuple, silently breaking memcg
> filter setup.
> 
> Patch 3-4 fix bugs in damos_tried_regions.py: wrong operator
> precedence drops the "not met" prefix from failure output, and
> empty early aggregation cycles cause premature test failure.
> 
> Patch 5 fixes several wrong strings that produce dead elif
> branches, skipped file existence checks, and broken dict key
> lookups.

I left comments to each patch.  To summarize,

Patches 1, 3 and 5 look good except signer/author info mismatch.

For patches 2 and 4, I think we need more discussions.


Thanks,
SJ

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