Re: [LTP] [BUG?] proc01: read /proc/acpi/event failed if acpi daemon stopped

[Shi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Garrett

at 2010-3-13 15:13, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Shi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>> An error message occured when i tested proc01.
>>> ---------
>>> proc01      1  TFAIL  :  read failed: /proc/acpi/event: errno=EAGAIN(11): Resource temporarily unavailable
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> If "service acpid start", this message will be turned to:
>>> ---------
>>> proc01      0  TINFO  :  /proc/acpi/event: known issue: errno=EBUSY(16): Device or resource busy
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> I think we should to add a check of acpi daemon's status in testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c.
>>
>>    No, that's making things too complicated and won't scale as every
>> distro has developed a different means for specifying the status for a
>> service. Why not just add EAGAIN for that /proc node?
> 
>     And FWIW the error condition is correct in my opinion if kernel
> acpi hasn't been enabled, which was the case here.

I think we should to give a warning message to LTP users.
How do you think the following patch?

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c b/testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c
index 2d4a5fd..62d44b1 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/fs/proc/proc01.c
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ const Mapping known_issues[] = {
     {"read", "/proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle", EINVAL},
     {"read", "/proc/fs/nfsd/.getfs", EINVAL},
     {"read", "/proc/fs/nfsd/.getfd", EINVAL},
+    {"read", "/proc/acpi/event", EAGAIN}, //EAGAIN will be returned if acpi daemon disabled
     {"", "", 0}
 };

> Thanks,
> -Garrett
> 
> 

-- 
Shi Weihua

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