patchset

This command tests one or more patches on top of an existing checkout on the KernelCI Pipeline instance. It is useful to verify a patch or a patch series before sending it to a mailing list, or to check whether a fix repairs a failing test.

The patches are applied on top of a checkout node created with the checkout command, in the order given. Patches can be local files, uploaded inline, or URLs from an allowed domain such as patchwork.kernel.org.

First trigger a checkout of the tree/branch/commit the patches are based on:

kci-dev checkout --giturl https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git --branch master --tipoftree

The command prints a checkout_nodeid, which identifies the checkout to apply the patches on.

Then test local patch files, for example the output of git format-patch:

kci-dev patchset --nodeid <checkout_nodeid> --patch 0001-fix.patch --patch 0002-fix.patch --job-filter "kbuild-gcc-12-x86"

Or test a patch series from patchwork:

kci-dev patchset --nodeid <checkout_nodeid> --patchurl https://patchwork.kernel.org/series/123456/mbox/ --job-filter "kbuild-gcc-12-x86"

Where:

• nodeid is the id of the checkout node to apply the patches on.
• patch is a local patch file to upload. Can be used multiple times.
• patchurl is a patch URL from an allowed domain. Can be used multiple times. --patch and --patchurl cannot be combined in one request.
• job-filter is the job filter to use for the test (optional parameter)
• platform-filter is the platform filter to use for the test (optional parameter)

Patch files must be text-only unified diffs. The pipeline rejects binary patches, and at most 32 patches of up to 10 MiB each can be uploaded per request.

–watch, -w

As with the checkout command, you can use the --watch option to watch the progress of the test on the patched tree, and --test to wait for a particular test result and set the exit code accordingly. See the checkout documentation for details.

kci-dev patchset --nodeid <checkout_nodeid> --patch fix.patch --job-filter baseline-nfs-arm64-qualcomm --watch --test baseline.login