Re: [ANNOUNCE] The Linux Test Project has been Released for JUNE2008

From: Kevin Winchester
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 18:05:28 EST


Subrata Modak wrote:
Dear All,

The Linux Test Project test suite has been released for the month of
JUNE 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.


JUNE 2008 Highlights:

* Addition of timerfd(), utimensat(), gettid() & io_cancel() tests,
* Addition of CPU & MEMORY HOTPLUG tests,
* Addition of Process Event Connector tests,
* Addition of Hackbench test,
* RT tests fix for START_LATENCY,
* FS_BIND fix for ia64 & for kernels below 2.6.15,
* SE-Linux fix to build against the latest refpolicy headers,
* Concurrency Fixes for some tests.


JUNE 2008 LTP Contributors:

* Masatake YAMATO,
* Davide Libenzi,
* Rusty Russell,
* Michael Kerrisk,
* Bryce Harrington,
* Stephen Smalley,
* Renaud Lottiaux,
* Vernon Mauery,
* Louis Rilling,
* Li Zefan,
* Roy Lee,
* Andrew Vagin,
* Veerendra Chandrappa,
* Le Rouzic,
* Garrett Cooper,
* Giuseppe Cavallaro,
* Carmelo Amoroso,
* Chirag Jog,
* Max Stirling,
* Shi Weihua,
* Matthieu FertrÃ,
* Matt Fleming,


Note(s) from the Maintainer:

June 2008 saw the initiation of Project collaboration. Thanks to
Masatake Yamato, who will help in porting a significant amount of
syscall test cases from the Crackerjack Project to LTP. I am also
excited to see that new test cases are being submitted to LTP with
increasing pace. I hope that the pace accelerates much much more. The
next half of 2008 will also see some major Infrastructural improvements
in LTP along with our unending endeavor to add more test cases. From now
onwards i would also like to acknowledge each and every contributor in
this release mail for their valuable contribution(s). I will release
results on 2 diff. kernels(one a bit old and another a bit younger) on
same architecture and for those architectures available at my disposal.
This will help us to compare results for 2 extreme kernels.


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.

We would encourage the community to post results to
ltp-results@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
patches, new tests, bugs or comments/questions to ltp-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
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 (JUNE 2008) for detailed
changes.


Hi,

I decided to give this LTP release a try on my workstation, and there were quite a few test failures. Is that expected? I expect that some of the failures are probably related to kernel features I have turned off (I try to get rid of stuff I don't need where possible).

If the failures are not expected, what should I do? Would the log file be of any help? Are there any extra options I should supply? I just ran:

./runltp -p -l result.yyyymmdd.log


If failures are expected on some systems or with some kernel configuration options, then let me know, and perhaps I can diff log files between kernel versions to look for new failures.

Thanks,

--
Kevin Winchester

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