There are some cases that a patch may be needed to apply to the kernel
in patchcheck or bisect tests. Adding a PRE_BUILD option to apply the
patch and POST_BUILD to remove it, allows for this to be done easily.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Searching through several tests, it gets confusing which test result
is for which test. By adding the TEST_NAME option, the user can tell
which test result belongs to which test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the config_bisect compares the min config with the
CONFIG_BISECT config. There may be another config that we know
is good that we want to ignore configs on. By passing in this
config it will ignore the options that are set in the good config.
Note: This only ignores the config, it does not (yet) handle
options that are different between the two configs. If the good
config has "SLAB" set and the bad config has "SLUB" it will not
find the bug if the bug had to do with changing these two options.
This is something that I intend to implement in the future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a triple fault happens in a test, no call trace nor panic
is displayed. Instead, the system reboots to the good kernel.
Since the good kernel may display a boot prompt that matches the
success string, ktest may think that the test succeeded, when it
did not.
Detecting triple faults is tricky because it is hard to generalize
what a reboot looks like. The best that we can come up with for now
is to examine the Linux banner. If we detect that the Linux banner
matches the test we want to test, then look to see if we hit another
Linux banner with a different kernel is booted. This can be assumed
to be a triple fault.
We can't just check for two Linux banners because things like
early printk may cause the Linux banner to be displayed twice. Checking
for different kernel versions should be the safe bet.
If this for some reason detects a false triple boot. A new ktest
config option is also created:
DETECT_TRIPLE_FAULT
This can be set to 0 to disable this checking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are cases where one ktest option may be used within another
ktest option. Allow them to be reused just like config variables
but there are evaluated at time of test not config processing time.
Thus having something like:
MAKE_CMD = make ARCH=${ARCH}
TEST_START
ARCH = powerpc
TEST_START
ARCH = arm
Will have the arch defined for each test iteration.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I found that I constantly reuse information for each test case.
It would be nice to just define a variable to reuse.
For example I may have:
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
[etc]
The issue is, I may wont to change that script or one of the other
fields. Then I need to update each line individually.
With the addition of config variables (variables only used during parsing
the config) we can simplify the config files. These variables can
also be defined multiple times and each time the new value will
overwrite the old value.
The convention to use a config variable over a ktest option is to use :=
instead of =.
Now we could do:
USER := root
TARGET := mybox
TEST_SCRIPT := /path/to/my/script
TEST_CASE := ${USER}@${TARGET} ${TEST_SCRIPT}
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
TEST_START
[...]
TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
[etc]
Now we just need to update the variables at the top.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The patches being checked may not leave the kernel in a state
that the next run will allow the new kernel to be copied to the
machine. Reboot to a known good kernel before continuing to the
next kernel to test.
Added option PATCHCHECK_SLEEP_TIME for the max time to sleep between
patchcheck reboots.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, if a test causes constant output but never reaches a
boot prompt, or crashes, the test will never stop. Add STOP_TEST_AFTER
to create a variable that will stop (and fail) the test after it has run
for this amount of time. The default is 10 minutes. Setting this
variable to -1 will disable it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the config option BISECT_FILES that allows the user to
specify what path in the kernel to run the git bisect on.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If a during a git bisect, ktest fails on something other than
what it is testing (if BISECT_TYPE is test but it fails on build),
if BISECT_SKIP is set, then it will do a "git bisect skip" instead
of just failing the bisect and letting the user find a good commit
to test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For both git bisect and config bisect, if BISECT_MANUAL is set to 1,
then bisect will stop between iterations and ask the user for the
result. The actual result is ignored. This makes it possible to
use ktest.pl for bisecting configs and git and let the user examine
the results themselves and enter their own results.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Added the options STOP_AFTER_SUCCESS and STOP_AFTER_FAILURE to
allow the user to give a time (in seconds) to stop the monitor
after a stack trace or login has been detected. Sometimes the
kernel constantly prints out to the console and this may cause
the test to run indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Change the config to use TEST_START where the options after a
TEST_START automatically get the [] as it is read and they do
not need to exist in the config file;
TEST_START
MIN_CONFIG = myconfig
is the same as
MIN_CONFIG[1] = myconfig
The benefit is that you no longer need to keep track of test numbers
with tests.
Also process the commit ids that are passed to the options
to get the actually SHA1 so it is no longer relative to the branch.
Ie, saying HEAD will get the current SHA1 and then that will
be used, and will work even if another branch is checked out.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Added the options POWEROFF_AFTER_HALT to handle boxes that do not
really shut off after a halt is called.
Added POWERCYCLE_AFTER_REBOOT to force a power cycle for boxes that
don't reboot but get stuck during the reboot.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a POST_INSTALL option that runs after the build and install
but before rebooting to the test kernel. This alls the user to
run a script that will install an initrd (or anything else that may
be special) before booting.
An environment variable KERNEL_VERSION is set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Added sample.conf as a nice document to show new users.
Use a %default hash to separate out the options that are default
and allow us to complain about options being set twice.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
