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* [PATCH 00/27] mtd-utils: make integck test independent
@ 2011-04-13 15:18 Artem Bityutskiy
  2011-04-13 15:16 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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  0 siblings, 28 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Artem Bityutskiy @ 2011-04-13 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: MTD list; +Cc: Adrian Hunter

Hi, here is a patch-set which makes the integck test independent on the
common code which tests in tests/fs-tests/ directory share. You may be
wondering why the hack you need this :-) The explanation is rather long.

Q: Why you need to have integck independent?
A: Well, first of all I think integck is the only cool and useful test
   in the whole fs-tests directory. To other ones are not really useful.
   And I do not want to touch them at all.

   I plan to improve integck later, and this is preparation work. My
   improvements require nice error handling - not just dying in CHECK()
   macro. Do do this, I'll need to touch a lot of that common code. But
   since it is shared, I may brake some of the other tests if I touch it.
   Thus, I want to have integck independent on the other tests as the
   first step. And this patch-set is actually the preparation to the
   further planned work.

Q: So what are you going to do next?
A: Next I want to make all functions return error nicely (and free resources)
   if a write or any other FS modification operation fails. Currently the
   integck test just exits.

Q: Why you need that?
A: To test UBIFS with the power-cut emulation feature on. UBIFS can emulate
   power cuts, which means that integck may get an error at any time. In this
   case the test should be able to re-mount the tested file-system, check that
   fsync()'ed files are correct, and continue the testing. So nice error handling
   is just a preparation work.

   And longer term this is needed for unstable bits testing. I have UBI patches
   which emulates power cuts and unstable bits, and UBIFS is supposed to handle
   them nicely. But it does not currently. And to fix UBI/UBIFS i need a good
   test which is able to recover when a power cut is emulated and which is able
   to check integrity of those files which were fsync()'ed before the emulated
   power cut. But this is long-term plan. Hopefully I'll be able to finish
   this, but any help will be appreciated.

So, for now just these small preparations.

Artem.

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2011-04-13 15:18 [PATCH 00/27] mtd-utils: make integck test independent Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:16 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 01/27] fs-tests: integck: shrink dir_entry_info structure size Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 02/27] fs-tests: integck: shrink file_info " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 03/27] fs-tests: integck: srink file_info structure even more Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 04/27] fs-tests: integck: abuse random_offset field nicer Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 05/27] fs-tests: integck: shrink write_info even more Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 06/27] fs-tests: integck: change tests defaults Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 07/27] fs-tests: integck: implement own parameters parsing Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 08/27] fs-tests: integck: clean-up copy_string Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 09/27] fs-tests: integck: get rid of tests_check_test_file_system Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 10/27] fs-tests: integck: make integck function return error Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 11/27] fs-tests: integck: move mem_page_size to fsinfo Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 12/27] fs-tests: integck: move more variables " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 13/27] fs-tests: integck: add own get_free_space function Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 14/27] fs-tests: integck: move log10_initial_free to fsinfo Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 15/27] fs-tests: integck: remove trailing backslashes from mount point Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 16/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_cat_pid Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 17/27] fs-tests: integck: clean up test directory creation Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 18/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_clear_dir Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:18 ` [PATCH 19/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use space after cast Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 20/27] fs-tests: integck: prefer to check for success Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 21/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_fs_is_rootfs Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 22/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_remount Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 23/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_get_total_space Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 24/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use global common variables Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 25/27] fs-tests: integck: do not use tests_random_no Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 26/27] fs-tests: integck: implement own version of CHECK Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-13 15:19 ` [PATCH 27/27] fs-tests: integck: do not expect max name length to be 256 Artem Bityutskiy

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