[Piglit] add kernel message logging?

[Michal Suchanek]

On 1 September 2010 03:07, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:10:09 +0200, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at centrum.cz> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I was thinking that it would be nice if the results also logged kernel
>>> messages genereated by the tests.
>>>
>>> Since the piglit tests often crash or lock up the GPU and this is
>>> reported by the kernel it would add more useful information into the
>>> logs.
>>>
>>> It should be quite easy to compare the dmesg output before and after the test.
>>>
>>> I don't know python so it would be quite difficult for me to add to
>>> the test runner, unfortunately.
>>
>> Yuck, then when I roam wireless networks I'll get the wireless driver's
>> spam logged in my test run?

Yes, you probably will. Or you can always not log the messages.

>
> Even then, unless the kernel crash happens inline with the test its
> hard to know if its the test that caused it.
>
> It could be something else on the desktop etc.
>
> At least for r600 we get a reset if we do something bad, but generally
> the test also hangs pretty badly.
>

The logging is not done by the test and the test run does not stop for
me when the GPU is reset but I have no idea what test caused it
because I only see the screen flash and tens of tests logged.

Thanks

Michal