Dear All, The Linux Test Project test suite has been released for the month of JANUARY 2008. The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux OS and can be found at http://ltp.sourceforge.net/. Latest happenings in LTP can also be found at: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/wiki/, http://ltp.sourceforge.net/wikiArchives.php, and, IRC: irc.freenode.org #ltp.
Our web site also contains other information such as: - A Linux test tools matrix - Technical papers - How To's on Linux testing - Code coverage analysis tool. Release Highlights: * Changes to SE-Linux Reference Policy Test cases, * GCOV Kernel Patches for Kernels 2.6.23 & 2.6.24, * Addition of FALLOCATE Test Cases, * Fix to NUMA Test Cases, * Fix to POSIX_FADVISE Test Cases, * REALTIME Test Cases maturing from more community contribution, * Huge Changes to KDUMP Test Cases, * Addition of FILECAPS Test Cases, * Fixes to HTML Output Generation, * Enhancing LTP capability to run continuous sequential runs, Note(s) from the Maintainer: We have had a good 2007 for LTP and the beginning of 2008 also was fantastic. As we move forward through 2008, we expect traffic to increase tremendously and community contributions touching new heights. We would encourage the community to post results to [EMAIL PROTECTED], patches, new tests, bugs or comments/questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=103382 (for New Bug(s)), http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=303382 (for New Patch(s)), http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=353382 (for New Feature Request(s)) Please also see the Change Log Attached (JANUARY 2008): Happy testing, Regards-- Subrata,
1) Log Message: Some more updates to Reference Policy Checks by "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testscripts/test_selinux.sh File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/misc/check_sbin_deprecated.pl ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/misc/sbin_deprecated.patch ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/misc/update_refpolicy.sh 2) Log Message: This solves the configuration issue reported by Santwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and, fixed by Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/mlockall/mlockall02.c 3) Log Message: Fix various printf strings to correct formatting and remove spaces, by, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/tools/apicmds/ltpapicmd.c 4) Log Message: gcov-kernel patch for linux 2.6.23, by Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Added: /cvsroot/ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.23-gcov-arm-eabi.patch /cvsroot/ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.23-gcov-arm-hack.patch /cvsroot/ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.23-gcov.patch 5) Log Message: Filter non-word characters in function name as they would break our file format which uses comma and '=' as field separator, by Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: /cvsroot/ltp/utils/analysis/lcov/bin/geninfo 6) Log Message: Add dependency information for linux_syscall_numbers.h, by Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/include/Makefile 7) Log Message: Testcases contributed by Sharyathi Nagesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/runtest/syscalls ltp/testcases/kernel/include/i386.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/ia64.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/powerpc.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/powerpc64.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/s390.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/s390x.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/sparc.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/sparc64.in ltp/testcases/kernel/include/x86_64.in File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fallocate/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fallocate/fallocate01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fallocate/fallocate02.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fallocate/fallocate03.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fallocate/run.sh 8) Log Message: Fix for situations when it fails even on NUMA node, enabling proper identification of nodes, by psuriset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/numa01.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/numa_node_size.c ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/test.sh 9) Log Message: Terminates the tests if __NR_fadvise64 is 0, by Masatake YAMATO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fadvise/posix_fadvise01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fadvise/posix_fadvise02.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fadvise/posix_fadvise03.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fadvise/posix_fadvise04.c 10) Log Message: Randomly generating a no. to avoid the test case to fail, by Sridhar Vinay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/syslog/syslogtst.c 11) Log Message: Jeff Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wanted this unnecessary file to be removed FIle(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/pounder21/test_scripts/statslogging.orig 12) Log Message: Some fixes for log directory and execute permission to the script, by Sudhanshu Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jeff Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/realtime/README File(s) Removed: ltp/testscripts/realtime.sh File(s) Added: ltp/testscripts/test_realtime.sh 13) Log Message: Still more fix for Randomly generating a no. to avoid the test case to fail, by Sridhar Vinay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/syslog/syslogtst.c 14) Log Message: "hp_func" should be protected through pthread_mutex or similar, by, Yi Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/pthread_create/1-6.c 15) Log Message: Huge Changes from Cai Qian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please see the Description below: The updated version has the following improvments, - simplify maintenance - fix several bugs - better automation - extend support on Debian and Fedora - merge Poornima Nayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 's latest patch - other changes The new version simplifies code layout, and all tools under lib/ directory are standalone and reusable, all configurable variables are under the file runkdump.conf. There are also included sample configuration files for different distros and test components. In addition, it avoided code duplication by merging RHEL and SLES specified code in lkdtm module together, and add a checking before hand. The working flow in main script has also been tidied up. verify and verify_dump have been unified. unused file "summary" has been deleted. In previous version, * The part of comparing kernel version in setup will not work proper if the kernel grows to something like 2.7.1 or 2.8.1. * verify_dump will not able to find previous vmcore if vmcore creation and vmcore verfication happen at different hours. * Other random bugs because of code complexity. In the new version, once you define everything in a config file, it will run in an automatically fashion on some of systems, if there is proper tools installed. The code has been rewritten in POSIX shell syntax, and made more portable, and attempted to remove hard-coded stuff as much as possible. It has been tested fairly on RHEL5.1, SLES10sp1, Debian unstable, and Fedora 8. If needed I can send you result logs. Sachin has done a quick test on PPC64 machine running RHEL5.1 and the script run fine. Poornima has done some code review. Poornima's patch has been merged, 1. Crashkerenl reservation check is modified to support any craskernel value. 2. A message before system reboots 3. Added one more line to 'status' if dump verification passed. 4. Modified 'README' file 5. If kdump start fails for invalid arguments in kdump.conf is fixed 6. Replaced MAKE_OPTS with MAKE_OPTIONS. 7. Removed some unwanted statements. Other changes included that all tests descriptions have been documented in doc/ALL_TEST.txt. KNLD (dump over scp with link delay) test case has been merged into KNSCP (dump over scp). Once LINK_DELAY has been defined somewhere in configuration file, all test cases (KNSCP and KNNFS) dumping to a network destination will take advantage of it. If LINK_DELAY is not defined or equals to 0, KNSCP and KNNFS will just the same as in previous version. Cai Qian Modified Files: ltp/testcases/kdump/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/README Added Files: ltp/testcases/kdump/runkdump.conf ltp/testcases/kdump/runkdump.sh ltp/testcases/kdump/doc/ALL_TEST.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/doc/OO_Descriptions.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/doc/README ltp/testcases/kdump/doc/TEST_PLAN.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/setup.sh ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/ssh.tcl ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/sysinfo.sh ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/test.sh ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/verify.sh ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/crasher/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/crasher/crasher.c ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/kprobes/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/kprobes/kprobes.c ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/lkdtm/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/lkdtm/lkdtm.c ltp/testcases/kdump/lib/lkdtm/lkdtm.c.orig ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.BASIC_LKDTM.RHEL ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.BASIC_LKDTM.SLES ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.CRASHER.RHEL ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.CRASHER.SLES ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.EXTRA_LKDTM.RHEL ltp/testcases/kdump/sample/runkdump.EXTRA_LKDTM.SLES Removed Files: ltp/testcases/kdump/TEST_PLAN.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/crash_cmds ltp/testcases/kdump/distro ltp/testcases/kdump/kdump_propagate ltp/testcases/kdump/master ltp/testcases/kdump/setup ltp/testcases/kdump/summary ltp/testcases/kdump/sysinfo ltp/testcases/kdump/test ltp/testcases/kdump/tests ltp/testcases/kdump/verify ltp/testcases/kdump/verify_dump ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/OO_Descriptions.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/crasher_mod/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/crasher_mod/crasher.c ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/lkdtm_mod/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/lkdtm_mod/lkdtm.c ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/OO_Descriptions.txt ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/crasher_mod/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/crasher_mod/crasher.c ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/lkdtm_mod/Makefile ltp/testcases/kdump/susetools/lkdtm_mod/lkdtm.c ltp/testcases/kdump/testlists/crasher ltp/testcases/kdump/testlists/lkdtm.base ltp/testcases/kdump/testlists/lkdtm.exha 16) Log Message: A huge Update to the RT Linux Tree by Sebastien Dugu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified Files: ltp/testcases/realtime/func/async_handler/async_handler.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/async_handler/async_handler_tsc.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/gtod_latency/gtod_latency.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/hrtimer-prio/hrtimer-prio.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/matrix_mult/matrix_mult.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/periodic_cpu_load/periodic_cpu_load.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/periodic_cpu_load/periodic_cpu_load_single.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/pi_perf/pi_perf.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/pthread_kill_latency/pthread_kill_latency.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/sched_football/sched_football.c ltp/testcases/realtime/func/sched_latency/sched_latency.c 17) Log Message: Fix for remap_file_pages(01/02) failing on 31(s390) bit linux guest running RHEL4.6, by, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modifiled File(s): ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/remap_file_pages/remap_file_pages01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/remap_file_pages/remap_file_pages02.c 18) Log Message: Fixing missing argument for open() function when O_CREAT is in the flag, by, Yi Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): testcases/kernel/syscalls/clone/clone02.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/fcntl/fcntl18.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/fdatasync/fdatasync01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/getdents/getdents04.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/mprotect/mprotect02.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/mprotect/mprotect03.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/pselect/pselect01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/read/read02.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/select/select01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile03.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/splice/splice01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/symlink/symlink01.c testcases/kernel/syscalls/tee/tee01.c testcases/network/ipv6/sendfile6/testsf_c6.c testcases/network/tcp_cmds/sendfile/testsf_c.c testcases/kernel/fs/doio/iogen.c 19) Log Message: Fix for generation of HTML output for absolute paths, by, Subrata Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/runltp ltp/tools/genhtml.pl 20) Log Message: Initial set of Filecaps testcases from Serge, "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified Files: ltp/runltp ltp/testcases/kernel/security/Makefile Added Files: ltp/runtest/filecaps ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/README ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/check_simple_capset.c ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/checkforfilecaps.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/checkforlibcap.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/filecapstest.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/gotlibcap.c ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/inh_capped.c ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/nolibcap.c ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/print_caps.c ltp/testcases/kernel/security/filecaps/verify_caps_exec.c ltp/testscripts/test_filecaps.sh 21) Log Message: testcase ballista gcc 4.3 conformance, by, Patrick Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/testcases/ballista/ballista/compile/bparser.cpp 22) Log Message: Enhancing runltp to run testcases in desired sequence, by, Subrata Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/runltp 23) Log Message: Adding volatile to avoid the compiler optimization to produce an infinite, by, Carmelo AMOROSO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/times/times03.c 24) Log Message: Extend the unconfined_runs_test interface in the selinux testsuite policy to allow the test programs to properly report back to the caller, by, Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/README ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/misc/sbin_deprecated.patch 25) Log Message: added gcov-kernel patches for linux-2.6.24, by, Peter Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Added File(s): ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.24-gcov-arm-eabi.patch ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.24-gcov-arm-hack.patch ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.24-gcov.patch 26) Log Message: Fix for Build Error issues on NUMA Machine in absence of important RPMs, by, psuriset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modified File(s): ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/README ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/numa01.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/numa_node_size.c ltp/testcases/kernel/numa/test.sh
