selftests/resctrl: Skip the test if requested resctrl feature is not supported
authorFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:22:51 +0000 (02:22 +0000)
committerShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 2 Apr 2021 19:58:20 +0000 (13:58 -0600)
commitf1dd71982d1949a988cedbf4d9f2c726ee24344f
treeceb0b4489f434d5f752b44738795c8b2e2145ccc
parentc9fb4e7cee1ebf38257c93f7f5c8915a1424611e
selftests/resctrl: Skip the test if requested resctrl feature is not supported

There could be two reasons why a resctrl feature might not be enabled on
the platform
1. H/W might not support the feature
2. Even if the H/W supports it, the user might have disabled the feature
   through kernel command line arguments

Hence, any resctrl unit test (like cmt, cat, mbm and mba) before starting
the test will first check if the feature is enabled on the platform or not.
If the feature isn't enabled, then the test returns with an error status.
For example, if MBA isn't supported on a platform and if the user tries to
run MBA, the output will look like this

ok mounting resctrl to "/sys/fs/resctrl"
not ok MBA: schemata change

But, not supporting a feature isn't a test failure. So, instead of treating
it as an error, use the SKIP directive of the TAP protocol. With the
change, the output will look as below

ok MBA # SKIP Hardware does not support MBA or MBA is disabled

Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c