[PATCH] t0213: skip ancestry tests under user-mode emulation

From: Jamie Magee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2026, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID: <pull.2168.git.1783359242130.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Jamie Magee <jamie.magee@gmail.com>

The tests added in 3c8c638df6 (t0213: add trace2 cmd_ancestry tests, 2026-02-13) expect the cmd_ancestry event to name "test-tool" and "git". On Linux those names come from the "comm" field of /proc/<pid>/stat. Under user-mode emulation (e.g. qemu-user) /proc reports the emulator ("qemu-riscv64") instead, so the event is still emitted, the TRACE2_ANCESTRY probe enables the tests, and tests 2-5 fail even though they pass on native riscv64.

Require the probe to see "test-tool" in the ancestry of a test-tool spawned from test-tool, so the tests skip when the names are unreliable.

Cc: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Magee <jamie.magee@gmail.com>
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    t0213: skip ancestry tests under user-mode emulation

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2168%2FJamieMagee%2Ft0213-skip-under-emulation-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2168/JamieMagee/t0213-skip-under-emulation-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2168

 t/t0213-trace2-ancestry.sh | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t0213-trace2-ancestry.sh b/t/t0213-trace2-ancestry.sh
index a2b9536da8..2eb86c1952 100755
--- a/t/t0213-trace2-ancestry.sh
+++ b/t/t0213-trace2-ancestry.sh
@@ -31,12 +31,15 @@ PATH="$TTDIR:$PATH" && export PATH
 # no cmd_ancestry event is emitted.  We detect this at runtime and
 # skip the format-specific tests accordingly.
 
-# Determine if cmd_ancestry is supported on this platform.
+# Enable these tests only when cmd_ancestry reports real process names.
+# The procinfo stub emits no event; under user-mode emulation (e.g.
+# qemu-user) /proc reports the emulator, not the guest. Spawn test-tool
+# from test-tool and require "test-tool" in the child's ancestry.
 test_expect_success 'detect cmd_ancestry support' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -f trace.detect" &&
 	GIT_TRACE2_BRIEF=1 GIT_TRACE2="$(pwd)/trace.detect" \
-		test-tool trace2 001return 0 &&
-	if grep -q "^cmd_ancestry" trace.detect
+		test-tool trace2 004child test-tool trace2 001return 0 &&
+	if grep -q "^cmd_ancestry.*test-tool" trace.detect
 	then
 		test_set_prereq TRACE2_ANCESTRY
 	fi

base-commit: e9019fcafe0040228b8631c30f97ae1adb61bcdc

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