Linux Ftrace Testcases
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This is a collection of testcases for ftrace tracing feature in the Linux
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kernel. Since ftrace exports interfaces via the debugfs, we just need
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shell scripts for testing. Feel free to add new test cases.
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Running the ftrace testcases
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At first, you need to be the root user to run this script.
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To run all testcases:
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$ sudo ./ftracetest
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To run specific testcases:
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# ./ftracetest test.d/basic3.tc
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Or you can also run testcases under given directory:
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# ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/
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Contributing new testcases
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Copy test.d/template to your testcase (whose filename must have *.tc
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extension) and rewrite the test description line.
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* The working directory of the script is <debugfs>/tracing/.
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* Take care with side effects as the tests are run with root privilege.
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* The tests should not run for a long period of time (more than 1 min.)
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These are to be unit tests.
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* You can add a directory for your testcases under test.d/ if needed.
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* The test cases should run on dash (busybox shell) for testing on
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minimal cross-build environments.
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* Note that the tests are run with "set -e" (errexit) option. If any
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command fails, the test will be terminated immediately.
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* The tests can return some result codes instead of pass or fail by
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using exit_unresolved, exit_untested, exit_unsupported and exit_xfail.
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Result code
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Ftracetest supports following result codes.
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* PASS: The test succeeded as expected. The test which exits with 0 is
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counted as passed test.
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* FAIL: The test failed, but was expected to succeed. The test which exits
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with !0 is counted as failed test.
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* UNRESOLVED: The test produced unclear or intermidiate results.
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for example, the test was interrupted
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or the test depends on a previous test, which failed.
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or the test was set up incorrectly
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The test which is in above situation, must call exit_unresolved.
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* UNTESTED: The test was not run, currently just a placeholder.
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In this case, the test must call exit_untested.
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* UNSUPPORTED: The test failed because of lack of feature.
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In this case, the test must call exit_unsupported.
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* XFAIL: The test failed, and was expected to fail.
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To return XFAIL, call exit_xfail from the test.
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There are some sample test scripts for result code under samples/.
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You can also run samples as below:
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# ./ftracetest samples/
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TODO
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* Fancy colored output :)
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