[PATCH v1] aarch64 tests: remove irrelevant information messages from error tests

Matthieu Longo matthieu.longo@arm.com
Thu Aug 7 09:14:11 GMT 2025


On 2025-08-06 18:09, Alice Carlotti wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 05:19:55PM +0100, Matthieu Longo wrote:
>> Some existing error tests for system registers produce information level
>> messages that don't contain any information useful for the test.
>>
>> This patch turns off those information messages using the --no-info option.
> 
> If it were a new test file I wouldn't mind it, but I don't think it's worth the
> churn for changing existing tests.
> 
> In any case, I have a large WIP patch that affects sysreg tests, so I'd prefer
> to avoid any unnecessary merge conflicts with that for now.
> 
> I'll also note that in some other cases (though not this one) I have found the
> line numbers in info messages helpful for identifying the actual assembly line
> used in a test case.
> 
> Alice

I am not denying that those info lines might have a value, but they have 
none in the case of the system register tests. The info line and the 
warning/error line have exactly the same number, so they are redundant.

A previous patch (92b97af5ef0301ef983df5b3f52860309f64d9d3) was applied 
to clean up some of them, but new ones were added in the meantime.
This patch does not intend to clean up all of them, but targets the 
tests which require being changed for the upcoming GICv5 patch series.

Matthieu


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