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 732004D4 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:22:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.active-venture.com (mail.active-venture.com [67.228.131.205]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AC520327 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53EA3DA0.2070407@roeck-us.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:15:28 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely , Masami Hiramatsu , shuah.kh@samsung.com References: <53E38ED5.9000300@samsung.com> <53E43365.50809@hitachi.com> <53E8CF03.6020308@samsung.com> <53E8EB93.8030301@hitachi.com> <20140812130043.4894DC40C5C@trevor.secretlab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20140812130043.4894DC40C5C@trevor.secretlab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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: , 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. Thanks, Guenter