Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu....@canonical.com> writes:
> The eeh-basic test got its own 60 seconds timeout (defined in commit
> 414f50434aa2 "selftests/eeh: Bump EEH wait time to 60s") per breakable
> device.
>
> And we have discovered that the number of breakable devices varies
> on different hardware. The device recovery time ranges from 0 to 35
> seconds. In our test pool it will take about 30 seconds to run on a
> Power8 system that with 5 breakable devices, 60 seconds to run on a
> Power9 system that with 4 breakable devices.
>
> Thus it's better to disable the default 45 seconds timeout setting in
> the kselftest framework to give it a chance to finish. And let the
> test to take care of the timeout control.

I'd prefer if we still had some timeout, maybe 5 or 10 minutes? Just in
case the test goes completely bonkers.

cheers

> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/Makefile 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/Makefile
> index b397bab..ae963eb 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/Makefile
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ noarg:
>       $(MAKE) -C ../
>  
>  TEST_PROGS := eeh-basic.sh
> -TEST_FILES := eeh-functions.sh
> +TEST_FILES := eeh-functions.sh settings
>  
>  top_srcdir = ../../../../..
>  include ../../lib.mk
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/settings 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/settings
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e7b9417
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/eeh/settings
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +timeout=0
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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