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The ftrace selftests do not currently produce KTAP output, they produce a custom format much nicer for human consumption. This means that when run in automated test systems we just get a single result for the suite as a whole rather than recording results for individual test cases, making it harder to look at the test data and masking things like inappropriate skips. Address this by adding support for KTAP output to the ftracetest script and providing a trivial wrapper which will be invoked by the kselftest runner to generate output in this format by default, users using ftracetest directly will continue to get the existing output. This is not the most elegant solution but it is simple and effective. I did consider implementing this by post processing the existing output format but that felt more complex and likely to result in all output being lost if something goes seriously wrong during the run which would not be helpful. I did also consider just writing a separate runner script but there's enough going on with things like the signal handling for that to seem like it would be duplicating too much. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> |
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Linux Ftrace Testcases
This is a collection of testcases for ftrace tracing feature in the Linux
kernel. Since ftrace exports interfaces via the debugfs, we just need
shell scripts for testing. Feel free to add new test cases.
Running the ftrace testcases
============================
At first, you need to be the root user to run this script.
To run all testcases:
$ sudo ./ftracetest
To run specific testcases:
# ./ftracetest test.d/basic3.tc
Or you can also run testcases under given directory:
# ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/
Contributing new testcases
==========================
Copy test.d/template to your testcase (whose filename must have *.tc
extension) and rewrite the test description line.
* The working directory of the script is <debugfs>/tracing/.
* Take care with side effects as the tests are run with root privilege.
* The tests should not run for a long period of time (more than 1 min.)
These are to be unit tests.
* You can add a directory for your testcases under test.d/ if needed.
* The test cases should run on dash (busybox shell) for testing on
minimal cross-build environments.
* Note that the tests are run with "set -e" (errexit) option. If any
command fails, the test will be terminated immediately.
* The tests can return some result codes instead of pass or fail by
using exit_unresolved, exit_untested, exit_unsupported and exit_xfail.
Result code
===========
Ftracetest supports following result codes.
* PASS: The test succeeded as expected. The test which exits with 0 is
counted as passed test.
* FAIL: The test failed, but was expected to succeed. The test which exits
with !0 is counted as failed test.
* UNRESOLVED: The test produced unclear or intermidiate results.
for example, the test was interrupted
or the test depends on a previous test, which failed.
or the test was set up incorrectly
The test which is in above situation, must call exit_unresolved.
* UNTESTED: The test was not run, currently just a placeholder.
In this case, the test must call exit_untested.
* UNSUPPORTED: The test failed because of lack of feature.
In this case, the test must call exit_unsupported.
* XFAIL: The test failed, and was expected to fail.
To return XFAIL, call exit_xfail from the test.
There are some sample test scripts for result code under samples/.
You can also run samples as below:
# ./ftracetest samples/
TODO
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* Fancy colored output :)