On 04/14/2013 09:40 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:30:27PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >> On 03/20/2013 03:06 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:58:56PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >>>> On 03/17/2013 11:25 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:09:09PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >>>>>> Some tests want extra arguments as enumerated in unittests.cfg, >>>>>> use them. >>>>>> >>>>>> unittests.cfg also has a few sections about invoking certains tests >>>>>> with different combinations of options, but x86-run doesn't do >>>>>> anything with that. >>>>> With this it will not be possible to use x86-run outside of autotest, >>>>> no? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Not true, x86-run is still meant to be the standalone helper script for >>>> running unittests. autotest doesn't care about x86-run, and ConfigParser >>>> is a >>>> standard python module. >>>> >>>> x86/unittests.cfg already exists in the kvm-unit-tests repo, I assumed it >>>> was >>>> encoding required test options but maybe I'm wrong about that. It's still >>>> useful to build off of if there's value in running some tests with >>>> different >>>> combinations of parameters. >>> >>> I fail to see what is the point here. >>> >>> unittests.cfg has been originally (and continues to be, AFAIK), intended >>> for autotest: >>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2010/6/24/6264146 >>> >>> Please don't remove manual execution from README. >> >> I guess I'm misunderstanding things here. >> >> I understood that unittests.cfg was only being used by autotest. What >> confused >> me was that this config enumerates different command line options for some of >> the tests. Why is autotest invoking these test cases with different options >> than the README suggests? Which one is right? >> > Neither. README just have examples how to enable test device in various > versions of QEMU. unittests.cfg suppose to have reasonable configuration > for each test which is less likely to fail on most kernel. For instance > I may add a fix for a kernel bug and a test case for the bug. Since the > bug is not fixed on any released kernel autotest will start to fail, > so it may sense to disable the test in unittests.cfg meanwhile. Or I can > add a test that crashes kernel if it fails. It is probably not wise to > enable it for autotest, but running it manually will be still possible. > >> If unittests.cfg is the canonical list of options, than the README needs to >> document different command lines for each test. If the README is canonical, >> then I don't understand why autotest is using their own options. >> > I do not quite understand what do you mean here. README just have an > example on how to enable test device in QEMU. unittests.cfg does not > control that. >
Okay, sorry for the confusion. I revived the example invocations and reposted. Thanks, Cole >> My intent was to unify the two, so that autotest wouldn't reproduce an error >> that the kvm-unit-test docs might miss. And if there's ever a new unit test >> added that requires non-default qemu options, or is useful to run with a few >> permutations of cli options, unittests.cfg can be extended and x86-run will >> just do the right thing. >> >> Does that make sense? >> >> Thanks, >> Cole > > -- > Gleb. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
