On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:15 AM Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:51:25AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 5:39 AM Michal Suchánek <msucha...@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > there is some testsuite included with ndctl, and when following the > > > instructions to build it most tests fail or are skipped: > > > > > > [ 95s] Ok: 3 > > > [ 95s] Expected Fail: 0 > > > [ 95s] Fail: 5 > > > [ 95s] Unexpected Pass: 0 > > > [ 95s] Skipped: 15 > > > [ 95s] Timeout: 0 > > > > > > Is this the expected outcome or is this a problem with the ndctl build? > > > > > > Attaching test run log. > > > > I see a few missing prerequisites: > > > > [ 78s] /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ndctl-73/test/pmem-errors.sh: line > > 64: mkfs.ext4: command not found > > [ 95s] /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ndctl-73/test/security.sh: line 25: > > jq: command not found > > Indeed, with those installed I get much more tests passing: > > [ 148s] Ok: 13 > [ 148s] Expected Fail: 0 > [ 148s] Fail: 4 > [ 148s] Unexpected Pass: 0 > [ 148s] Skipped: 6 > [ 148s] Timeout: 0 > > > > > This report: > > > > [ 51s] 1/23 ndctl:ndctl / libndctl SKIP > > 0.02s exit status 77 > > > > ...seems to indicate that the nfit_test modules did not appear to load > > correctly. I never expected that the nfit_test modules would be > > redistributable, so I was surprised to see them being installed by an > > actual package "nfit_test-kmp-default-0_k5.17.4_1-6.1". The reason > > they are not redistributable is because they require replacing the > > production build of the kernel provided modules libnvdimm.ko, > > nd_pmem.ko, etc... What I expect is happening is that the production > > version of libnvdimm.ko is already loaded (or is the only one on the > > AFAICT neither is the case, that's why I dump the module information in > the log.
The modinfo just tells you what modules are available, but it does not necessarily indicate which modules are actively loaded in the system which is what ndctl_test_init() validates.
