Sometimes a test kernel will crash or hang on reboot (this is even more
apparent when testing a config without CGROUPS on a box running
systemd). When this happens, on the next iteration of installing a
kernel, ktest will fail when it tries to install.
Have ktest do a check to see if the target can be connected to via ssh
before it tries to install. If it can't connect, then reboot again.
This time the reboot will fail because it can't connect and will force a
power cycle.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit fb16d891 "kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and
keep the old name", changed ktest's default config update from
oldnoconfig to olddefconfig without adding oldnoconfig as a backup.
The make oldnoconfig works much better than its backup of:
yes '' | make oldconfig
But due to this change, and the fact that ktest is used to build lots of
older kernels (and for bisects), it forgoes the oldnoconfig completely.
Cc: Adam Lee <adam8157@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I installed Fedora 17 which no longer supports grub v1. I worked
with grub2 for a while, but there's so many issues with it and automated
rebooting, that I decided to switch to syslinux. Instead of using
the REBOOT_SCRIPT and add customized changes to get syslinux booted,
I thought it better to make ktest aware of syslinux and add options
to simplify the use of syslinux on a target test box.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Before rebooting the target, run the sync command, as it seems that
either Grub2 or systemd gets screwed up if you update to reboot a kernel
once and do a reboot without doing a sync.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As only grub or 'script' is supported for rebooting to a new kernel,
and Fedora 17 has dropped support for grub, I decided to add grub2
support as well (I also plan on adding syslinux/extlinux support too).
The options GRUB_FILE and GRUB_REBOOT were added to allow the user
to specify where to find the grub.cfg and what tool to use to reboot
into the next kernel respectively.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to decide if ktest should bother installing modules on the
target box, it checks if the config file has CONFIG_MODULES=y. But it
also checks if the '=y' part exists. It only will install modules if the
config exists and is set with '=y'. But as the regex that was used
tests:
/^CONFIG_MODULES(=y)?/
this will also match:
CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
as the '=y' part was optional and it did not test the rest of the line.
When this happens, ktest will stop checking the rest of the configs but
it will also think that no modules are needed to be installed. What it
should do is only jump out of the loop if it actually found a
CONFIG_MODULES that is set to true.
Otherwise, ktest wont install the necessary modules needed for proper
booting of the test target.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
"kconfig in v3.7 is going to
- initialize ncurses only once in menuconfig
- be able to jump to a search result in menuconfig
- change the misnomer oldnoconfig to a more meaningful name
olddefconfig, keeping the old name as alias"
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old name as an alias
menuconfig: Assign jump keys per-page instead of globally
menuconfig: Do not open code textbox scroll up/down
menuconfig: Add jump keys to search results
menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can return to a scrolled position
menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can exit on arbitrary keypresses
menuconfig: Remove superfluous conditionnal
kconfig: document oldnoconfig to what it really does in conf.c
kconfig/mconf.c: revision of curses initialization.
Pull ktest fix from Steven Rostedt:
"ktest has one fix needed for this merge window - fix parsing of ELSE
IF in reading config file"
* tag 'ktest-v3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest:
ktest: Fix ELSE IF statements
Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Tiny usual fixes all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
ipr: fix small coding style issues
doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
nfs: comment fix
platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
mfd: printk/comment fixes
doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
mmc: fix comment typos
dma: fix comments
spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
...
As 67d34a6a39 said, 'oldnoconfig' doesn't
set new symbols to 'n', but instead sets it to their default values.
So, this patch replaces 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', stop making
people confused, and keep the old name 'oldnoconfig' as an alias,
because people already are dependent on its behavior with the
counter-intuitive name.
Signed-off-by: Adam Lee <adam8157@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The ELSE IF statements do not work as expected if another ELSE statement
follows. This is because the $if_set is not set. If the ELSE IF
condition is true, the following ELSE should be ignored. But because the
$if_set is not set, the following ELSE will also be executed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add '=~' and '!~' to the list of allowed conditionals for DEFAULT and
TEST_START section if statements.
ie.
TEST_START IF TEST =~ .*test$
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The option IGNORE_ERRORS is used to allow a test to succeed even if a
warning appears from the kernel. Sometimes kernels will produce warnings
that are not associated with a test, and the user wants to test
something else.
The IGNORE_ERRORS works for boot up, but was not preventing test runs to
succeed if the kernel produced a warning.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The min configs are saved in a perl hash called force_configs, and this
hash is used to add configs to the .config file. But it was not being
reset between tests and a min config from a previous test would affect
the min config of the next test causing undesirable results.
Reset the force_config hash at the start of each test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Usually the target is booted into a dependable kernel when a test
starts. The test will install the test kernel and reboot the box. But
there may be a time that the kernel is running an unreliable kernel and
the reboot may crash.
Have ktest detect crashes on a reboot and force a power-cycle instead.
This can usually happen if a test kernel was installed to run manual
tests, but the user forgot to reboot to the known good kernel.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the console is constantly outputting content, this can cause ktest
to get stuck waiting on the monitor to settle down.
The option MAX_MONITOR_WAIT is the maximum time (in seconds) for ktest
to wait for the console to flush.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With a name like 'oldnoconfig' one may think that the config generated
would disable all configs that were not defined (selecting "no" for all
options). But this is not the case. It selects the default. If a config
has a 'default y', then it is added if not specified.
This broke the config bisect, because options not specified by a config
will just use the default, where it expected to turn off. This caused an
option to be enabled that disabled an option that would break the build.
The end result was that we never found the bad config at the end of the
test.
Instead of using 'make oldnoconfig', ktest now builds the options it
expects enabled and disabled. When it turns off an option, it will no
longer remove it, but actually set it to:
# CONFIG_FOO is not set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The config-bisect can take a bad config and bisect it down to find out
what config actually breaks the config. But as all tests will apply a
minconfig (defined by a user) to apply before booting, it is possible
that the minconfig could actually make the bad config work (minconfigs
can disable configs). The end result is that the config bisect test will
not find a config that breaks. This can be rather frustrating to the
user.
The CONFIG_BISECT_CHECK option, when set to 1, will make sure that the
bad config (with the minconfig applied) still fails before trying to
bisect.
And yes, I did get burned by this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the PRE_INSTALL option that will allow a user to specify a shell
command to be executed before the install operation executes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to let the user add commands before and after ktest runs, the
PRE_KTEST and POST_KTEST options are defined. They hold shell commands
that will execute befor ktest runs its first test, as well as when it
completed its last test.
The PRE_TEST and POST_TEST will be run befor and after (respectively)
for a given test. They can either be global (done for all tests) or
defined by a single test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a README that explains what the different example configs in the
ktest example directory are about.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I used the snowball.conf in a live demo that demonstrated how to use
ktest.pl with a snowball ARM board. I've been asked to included that
config in the ktest repository.
Here it is.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
