[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 02/37] drm/i915: Provide a hook for selftests

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:09:02PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Some pieces of code are independent of hardware but are very tricky to
> exercise through the normal userspace ABI or via debugfs hooks. Being
> able to create mock unit tests and execute them through CI is vital.
> Start by adding a central point where we can execute unit tests and
> a parameter to enable them. This is disabled by default as the
> expectation is that these tests will occasionally explode.
> 
> To facilitate integration with igt, any parameter beginning with
> i915.igt__ is interpreted as a subtest executable independently via
> igt/drv_selftest.
> 
> Two classes of selftests are recognised: mock unit tests and integration
> tests. Mock unit tests are run as soon as the module is loaded, before
> the device is probed. At that point there is no driver instantiated and
> all hw interactions must be "mocked". This is very useful for writing
> universal tests to exercise code not typically run on a broad range of
> architectures. Alternatively, you can hook into the live selftests and
> run when the device has been instantiated - hw interactions are real.

One problem I'm running into is that i915_selftest_ is a long prefix,
especially when we get to something like i915_selftest_timeout(jiffies,
							       "format",
							       args);

I'm tempted by /i915_selftest_/igt_/. Thoughts?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre