On 5/13/2026 10:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 10:23:07AM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
>> On 5/13/2026 10:15 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 08:49:39AM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
>>>> On 5/13/2026 3:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 08:45:42AM -0700, Pierrick Bouvier wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/24/2026 8:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>>>>> Currently tests can be classified into three speed groups depending on
>>>>>>> whether the meson suite name ends in '-slow' or '-thorough' or neither.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This gets turned into make targets that match the name of the meson
>>>>>>> suite, with the speed suffix stripped. e.g.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  * suite=block ->  'make check-block'
>>>>>>>  * suite=block-slow -> 'make check-block SPEED=slow'
>>>>>>>  * suite=block-thorough -> 'make check-block SPEED=thorough'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The set of tests under the "thorough" speed, however, can get rather
>>>>>>> large and it would be useful to have a way to expose further make
>>>>>>> targets for directly running a particular subset of tests.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This needs a way to run a target without requiring the SPEED variable,
>>>>>>> while also not having them enabled by default as if they were 'quick'
>>>>>>> tests.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This modifies mtest2make.py to support this idea by allowing for a new
>>>>>>> suffix '-optional' on a suite. When this is present, a correspondingly
>>>>>>> named make target will be created without the '-optional' suffix which
>>>>>>> will never be run automatically.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is intended to be combined with use of other suites. For example,
>>>>>>> a single NBD test might be added to two suites, 'block-thorough' and
>>>>>>> 'block-nbd-optional'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This would allow running it as part of all the block tests with
>>>>>>> 'make check-block SPEED=thorough', and as part of a standalone target
>>>>>>> 'make check-block-nbd'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  scripts/mtest2make.py | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/scripts/mtest2make.py b/scripts/mtest2make.py
>>>>>>> index 915f02d600..383ea68b16 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/scripts/mtest2make.py
>>>>>>> +++ b/scripts/mtest2make.py
>>>>>>> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def names(self, base):
>>>>>>>  print(r'''
>>>>>>>  SPEED = quick
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> -.speed.quick = $(sort $(filter-out %-slow %-thorough, $1))
>>>>>>> +.speed.quick = $(sort $(filter-out %-slow %-thorough %-optional, $1))
>>>>>>>  .speed.slow = $(sort $(filter-out %-thorough, $1))
>>>>>>>  .speed.thorough = $(sort $1)
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> @@ -66,10 +66,15 @@ def process_tests(test, targets, suites):
>>>>>>>              s = s[:-9]
>>>>>>>              suites[s].speeds.add('thorough')
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> +def target_name(suite):
>>>>>>> +    if suite.endswith('-optional'):
>>>>>>> +        return suite[0:-9]
>>>>>>> +    return suite
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>  def emit_prolog(suites, prefix):
>>>>>>> -    all_targets = ' '.join((f'{prefix}-{k}'
>>>>>>> +    all_targets = ' '.join((f'{prefix}-{target_name(k)}'
>>>>>>>                              for k in sorted(suites.keys())))
>>>>>>> -    all_xml = ' '.join((f'{prefix}-report-{k}.junit.xml'
>>>>>>> +    all_xml = ' '.join((f'{prefix}-report-{target_name(k)}.junit.xml'
>>>>>>>                          for k in sorted(suites.keys())))
>>>>>>>      print()
>>>>>>>      print(f'all-{prefix}-targets = {all_targets}')
>>>>>>> @@ -83,14 +88,17 @@ def emit_prolog(suites, prefix):
>>>>>>>      print(f'\t$(MAKE) {prefix}$* MTESTARGS="$(MTESTARGS) --logbase 
>>>>>>> {prefix}-report$*" && ln -f meson-logs/$@ .')
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  def emit_suite(name, suite, prefix):
>>>>>>> +    tgtname = target_name(name)
>>>>>>>      deps = ' '.join(sorted(suite.deps))
>>>>>>>      print()
>>>>>>> -    print(f'.{prefix}-{name}.deps = {deps}')
>>>>>>> -    print(f'.ninja-goals.check-build += $(.{prefix}-{name}.deps)')
>>>>>>> +    print(f'.{prefix}-{tgtname}.deps = {deps}')
>>>>>>> +    print(f'.ninja-goals.check-build += $(.{prefix}-{tgtname}.deps)')
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>      names = ' '.join(sorted(suite.names(name)))
>>>>>>> -    targets = f'{prefix}-{name} {prefix}-report-{name}.junit.xml'
>>>>>>> -    if not name.endswith('-slow') and not name.endswith('-thorough'):
>>>>>>> +    targets = f'{prefix}-{tgtname} {prefix}-report-{tgtname}.junit.xml'
>>>>>>> +    if not name.endswith('-slow') and \
>>>>>>> +       not name.endswith('-thorough') and \
>>>>>>> +       not name.endswith('-optional'):
>>>>>>>          targets += f' {prefix} {prefix}-report.junit.xml'
>>>>>>>      print(f'ifneq ($(filter {targets}, $(MAKECMDGOALS)),)')
>>>>>>>      # for the "base" suite possibly add FOO-slow and FOO-thorough
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not blocking this patch, thus reviewed, but I think it would be a better
>>>>>> abstraction to use meson suites for this (a test can be added in
>>>>>> multiple suites), instead of adding more clunk to makefile layer.
>>>>>
>>>>> This *is* using meson suites. The mtest2make script takes the list
>>>>> of meson suites and generates makefile targets which can be used to
>>>>> select execution of the meson suites. This change is exposing more
>>>>> of the suites as makefile targets, since make is our primary entry
>>>>> point.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> With regards,
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I can't read this patch correctly, but from it, and the message
>>>> description, I understand that -optional is a pure Makefile abstraction,
>>>> and does not reflect any real meson suite.
>>>
>>> Actually its the other way around. In the next patch in this series
>>> we create meson suites like  "block-nbd-optional" and that gets turned
>>> into a makefile target  "check-block-nbd". The "optional" part of the
>>> meson suite name determines that "check-block-nbd" is NOT added as a
>>> depedency of "check".  IOW, it doesn't get run by "make check", but
>>> must be optionally run through "make check-block-nbd" when needed.
>>>
>>
>> Oh right.
>> Just to double check, will everything still run when using
>> make check-block SPEED=thorough, or is there some new behaviour on this
>> side?
> 
> Yes, this commit doesn't affect that existing make target, so it
> operates as before.
> 
> Patch 5 does however fix a pre-existing problem - currently even
> with SPEED=thorough most of the qcow2 tests didn't get run, only
> the "quick" tests. With this series SPEED=thorough correctly does
> what people thought it was already doing.
>

Sounds good, thanks Daniel.

> With regards,
> Daniel


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