From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27F64523 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail4.hitachi.co.jp (mail4.hitachi.co.jp [133.145.228.5]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E90320327 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53EA3F22.8080607@hitachi.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:21:54 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guenter Roeck References: <53E38ED5.9000300@samsung.com> <53E43365.50809@hitachi.com> <53E8CF03.6020308@samsung.com> <53E8EB93.8030301@hitachi.com> <20140812130043.4894DC40C5C@trevor.secretlab.ca> <53EA3DA0.2070407@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <53EA3DA0.2070407@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shuah.kh@samsung.com, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] kselftest - What's in 3.17 and plans for 3.18 and beyond List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , (2014/08/13 1:15), Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 08/12/2014 06:00 AM, Grant Likely wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:13:07 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >>> (2014/08/11 23:11), Shuah Khan wrote: >>>>> (2014/08/07 23:36), Shuah Khan wrote:> As a first step towards a larger goal to enable developer >>>>>> friendly kernel testing framework, a new make target is >>>>>> planned for 3.17. In addition, 3.17 includes work done to >>>>>> fix tools/testing/sefltests to run without failures. >>>>>> >>>>>> Short summary of work done so far for 3.17: >>>>>> >>>>>> - fix compile errors and warnings in various tests >>>>>> - fix run-time errors when tests aren't run as root >>>>>> - enhance and improve cpu and memory hot-plug tests >>>>>> to run in limited scope mode by default. A new make >>>>>> target to select full-scope testing. Prior to this >>>>>> change, cpu and memory hot-plug tests hung trying to >>>>>> hot-plug all but cpu0 and a large portion of the memory. >>>>>> - add a new kselftest target to run existing selftests >>>>>> to start with. >>>>> >>>>> Instead of running the selftests, can we build the testcases and >>>>> install it as a tool? I think running tests on the tree is not a >>>>> good idea... >>>> >>>> One of the goals is to leverage developer tests that we already have. >>>> When a developer makes a kernel change and wants to see if that change >>>> lead to any regression, having the ability to buidl and run selftests on >>>> the newly installed kernel withe the same source tree is very useful. >>>> That is the reason behind adding this new target. >>> >>> I see, for that purpose, installing testcase may not fit. >>> BTW, how would it cover cross-build? >> >> I'm interested in this as well. I'm working on a tool that crossbuilds a >> very simple busybox rootfs and boots in QEMU for as many architectures >> as possible. I want to make it easy to sanity test all the major >> architectures. Right now it does little more than boot to a login >> prompt, but I'd like to get the kselftests into it also. >> > > Do you have that public yet ? I might want to use that for my -stable sanity tests. IMHO, We'd better share those testing tools/environments as much as possible so that each developer can ensure no regressions in their patches before sending it. Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com