kselftest:alsa-mixer regression on kevin

[r-c-n]

https://linux.kernelci.org/test/case/id/636251e552251d525ee7db67/

The test seems to be failing due to a timeout. Testing with a more permissive timeout shows that the test works fine (see https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/7930394#L1869 with a longer timeout vs https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/7929323#L1882 with the default one).

Unfortunately, the kselftest runner script hardcodes the timeout interval to 45 seconds and there don't seem to be any provisioning for overriding this in a per-test basis.

The proper solution for this would be to implement some kind of test-specific timeout definition and define a reasonable timeout for this test.

[r-c-n]

Following up Nicolas' patch and the conversation with Shuah: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/[email protected]/T/#t

[r-c-n]

The kselftests timeouts can now be overridden by specifying a custom value using a command line option (--override-timeout): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f6a01213e3f8

So in theory this problem can be fixed by changing how KernelCI launches the tests, FYI @nuclearcat @gctucker

[padovan]

Old issue. (also we are not tracking kernel test failure/issues through GitHub anymore)