[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] kms_atomic_transition: Output more finegrained progress info to avoid CI watchdog timeout

[Imre Deak]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:47:17PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:43:38PM +0300, Petri Latvala wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:29:33PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > The CI software watchdog (owatch) will timeout if the test doesn't
> > > output anything for a long time on standard out or error. At least the
> > > plane-all-modeset-transition and plane-all-modeset-transition-fences
> > > subtests run without any output longer than the watchdog timeout, so
> > > output some more progress info.
> > 
> > No, owatch is wrapping piglit, and pings the watchdog if _piglit_
> > prints anything. Which it does on start/exit of a test.
> 
> Yes, but the subtest itself takes more time than owatch's timeout,
> during which there is no output. So owatch will trigger a reboot before
> the subtest ends, even though it's making progress.

Or you mean piglit doesn't forward the test's stdout, stderr? In that
case this won't work.

--Imre