APPLIED [OEM-5.14, OEM-5.17, OEM-6.0] Re: [SRU][L/unstable][L][K][J][J/oem-5.17][J/oem-6.0][J/oem-6.1][F][F/oem-5.14]PATCH v2 0/1] Force-pass the passage of time test in rtcpie

[Timo Aaltonen]

Andrei Gherzan kirjoitti 20.2.2023 klo 15.04:
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814234
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
>    
> * This test can fail selftest on various test hosts in our testing
>    infrastructure forcing us to keep hinting releases. This leads to
>    maintenance burden for a test that is unreliable as it depends on the
>    context of the running host.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> * Force-pass the test included by upstream in
>    0b63accf87225b5eb7e52814c374cf02d733d4bb. We have chosen to keep this
>    test but to force its result unconditionally successful as opposed to
>    reverting the aforementioned commit because:
>    1. it keeps running the test with results and data that we can use in
>       the future for any "smarter" way to deal with it - eg. statistical
>       approach
>    2. it minimizes the maintenance burden of this patch kept in our
>       kernel trees
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> * It was tested in clean VMs.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> * No regression expected and the scope is in this specific selftest.
> 
> v2:
> * fix Buglink reference
> 
> Andrei Gherzan (1):
>    UBUNTU: SAUCE: selftest: rtcpie: Force passing unreliable subtest
> 
>   tools/testing/selftests/timers/rtcpie.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

applied to the older oem-kernels too.

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