[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable issues

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(2014/05/09 13:11), Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:35:45PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz> wrote:
>>> On Thu 08-05-14 11:38:14, Li Zefan wrote:
>>>> On 2014/5/7 22:15, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>> On Wed 07-05-14 12:06:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:58:58PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>>>>>> I tend to think of LTP as a nice way of doing unit-tests for the uapi.
>>>>>>> Fengguang's scripts do include it, iirc, but I'm referring more to unit
>>>>>>> level tests. It serves well for changes in ipc, and should also for
>>>>>>> other subsystems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LTP is too complicated and enterprisey.  With trinity you don't can just
>>>>>> type:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    ./configure.sh && make && ./trinity
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With LTP you have to read the install documents.  You can't run it
>>>>>> from your home directory so you have to build a virtual machine which
>>>>>> you don't care about before you install it.
>>>>>   Actually, I'm occasionally using LTP and it doesn't seem too bad to me.
>>>>> And it seems LTP is improving over time so I'm mostly happy about it.
>>>>
>>>> But how useful LTP is in finding kernel bugs? It seems to me we seldom
>>>> see bug reports which say the bug was found by LTP?
>>>   I'm handling a few (3-5) per year. I'm also extending the coverage (e.g.
>>> recently I've added fanotify interface coverage) when doing more involved
>>> changes to some code so that LTP can be reasonably used for regression
>>> checking.
>>
>> There was some talk about having some kind of 'make test' that you can
>> type in a kernel tree.  I'm not sure what the plan is, if any.
> 
> The plan is to fix it, we already have it in the tree today, but it is
> broken.

So will the "make test" run tools/testing/selftest? or other tests?

Thank you,

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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com