Hi Steve and Masami, On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:37:52 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hi Masami, > > This looks great. I'm a bit busy at the moment (just came back from > vacation, and digging myself out of the hole that left me). But I > definitely want this in. I have a bunch of tests too, that I can put on > top of this. My tests are rather hacky, and hard code a lot of stuff in > them, but they do test a bunch of features of ftrace. It shouldn't be > too hard to include them here. > > > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:45:44 +0000 > Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to introduce a collection of testcases for ftrace to >> avoid regressions. >> >> For a long time, we've tried to stabilize and extend ftrace >> tracing infrastructure. This small test framework is a kind of >> stabilizing work for ftrace. For the first step, this series >> just introduces a few basic testcases. However, it is easy to >> add additional tests. I'd like to ask you, ftrace developers, >> to add tests for your features to ensure it will not be broken >> by future works. >> >> ftracetest is a tiny bash script so that anyone can easily >> understand what it does. I think it is better to share and >> discuss this tests before growing it. >> >> - Is it enough to support bash script? (of course you can >> invoke other commands from the script)
Btw, does it use any bash-specific feature? >> - What's the good naming method of testcases? I'm okay with the ftracetest, but tracing-test may be an option. :) >> - Is any dependency check required? I think we need to start from no/minimum external dependency. >> >> BTW, I decided to put this under tools/testing/ftrace instead >> of tools/testing/selftests/, because all tests requires root >> privilege. It will be one of discussion points. Anyway, >> it is easy to integrate this to the selftests. > > I agree. I think having its own directory is a good idea. Lets see what > other people think. When I get time, I'll see if I can start a branch > that pulls this in and start adding my own tests on top of it. I also agree to have a separate directory and it's not a selftest :) Steve, I think you already have a lot of testcases that I want to add, I'll take a look if you setup the branch and try to add my own if needed. Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
