Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/3] selftests/memory-hotplug: Add checking after online or offline

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Sep 29 2022 - 05:04:46 EST


On 29.09.22 09:39, zhaogongyi wrote:
Hi,

We can not get the EBUSY from " echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryxxx/online", maybe, redirect the error ouput to /dev/null is suitable when calling offline_memory_expect_success():

# sh mem-on-off-test.sh -a
mem-on-off-test.sh: illegal option -- a
Test scope: 2% hotplug memory
online all hot-pluggable memory in offline state:
SKIPPED - no hot-pluggable memory in offline state
offline 2% hot-pluggable memory in online state
trying to offline 4 out of 192 memory block(s):
online->offline memory0
online->offline memory10
online->offline memory100
online->offline memory101
online->offline memory102
online->offline memory103
online->offline memory104
online->offline memory105
online->offline memory106
online->offline memory107
online->offline memory108
online->offline memory109
online->offline memory11
online->offline memory110
online->offline memory111
online->offline memory112
online->offline memory113
online->offline memory114
online->offline memory115
online->offline memory116
online->offline memory117
online->offline memory118
online->offline memory119
online->offline memory12
online->offline memory120
online->offline memory121
online->offline memory122
online->offline memory123
online->offline memory124

Can we have here an output like

online->offline memory0
-> Failure
online->offline memory10
-> Success

That would make much more sense for debugging purposes and understanding what is happening here. I was primarily concerned about the misleading error message, that indicated that something is "unexpected" -- it's perfectly reasonable here to *expect* that offlining a random memory blocks just fails.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb