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authorMaxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>2023-10-25 16:24:41 +0200
committerMaxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>2023-10-26 10:32:02 +0200
commit51c2385f608b08025600dd8015c43a8811c714c6 (patch)
tree7e5de3343551578b6212081f84599df0db16d06d /Documentation
parentb8644c4ae2b646b89b40892bf93cbb6f7451c868 (diff)
drm/doc: ci: Require more context for flaky tests
Flaky tests can be very difficult to reproduce after the facts, which will make it even harder to ever fix. Let's document the metadata we agreed on to provide more context to anyone trying to address these fixes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/CAPj87rPbJ1V1-R7WMTHkDat2A4nwSd61Df9mdGH2PR=ZzxaU=Q@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Helen Koike <helen.koike@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231025142441.745947-1-mripard@kernel.org
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst b/Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
index 469b6fb65c30..792428a2bfdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/automated_testing.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,19 @@ Lists the tests that for a given driver on a specific hardware revision are
known to behave unreliably. These tests won't cause a job to fail regardless of
the result. They will still be run.
+Each new flake entry must be associated with a link to the email reporting the
+bug to the author of the affected driver, the board name or Device Tree name of
+the board, the first kernel version affected, and an approximation of the
+failure rate.
+
+They should be provided under the following format::
+
+ # Bug Report: $LORE_OR_PATCHWORK_URL
+ # Board Name: broken-board.dtb
+ # Version: 6.6-rc1
+ # Failure Rate: 100
+ flaky-test
+
drivers/gpu/drm/ci/${DRIVER_NAME}-${HW_REVISION}-skips.txt
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