Re: [PATCH] selftests: allow runners to override the timeout

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 1:34 AM Muhammad Usama Anjum
<usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/15/23 12:38 AM, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > The default timeout for selftests tests is 45 seconds. Although
> > we already have 13 settings for tests of about 96 sefltests which
> > use a timeout greater than this, we want to try to avoid encouraging
> > more tests to forcing a higher test timeout as selftests strives to
> > run all tests quickly. Selftests also uses the timeout as a non-fatal
> > error. Only tests runners which have control over a system would know
> > if to treat a timeout as fatal or not.
> >
> > To help with all this:
> >
> >   o Enhance documentation to avoid future increases of insane timeouts
> >   o Add the option to allow overriding the default timeout with test
> >     runners with a command line option
> >
> > Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by:Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Shuah, just a friendly poke! This is needed to allow me to enable full
automation for kdevops for selftests.

 Luis