Re: ktest.pl always returns 0?

[Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 11:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi Steven,

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> 
> I'm trying to use ktest to do build tests of the stable patch series to
> verify I didn't mess anything up, but I'm finding that ktest always
> returns 0 when finished, no matter if the build test was successful or
> failed.

Hmm, I should fix that. Yeah, I agree, if it fails a test it should
return something other than zero. But I think that only happens if you
have DIE_ON_FAILURE = 0. As IIRC, the perl "die" command should exit the
application with an error code.

But yeah, I agree, if one of the tests fail, the error code should not
be zero. I'll write up a patch to fix that. Or at least add an option to
make that happen.


> 
> Is this right?  Is there some other way to determine if ktest fails
> other than greping the output log?

If you have DIE_ON_FAILURE = 1 (default) it should exit with non zero.

> 
> Oh, and any hints on kicking off a ktest process on a remote machine in
> a "simple" way?  I'm just using ssh to copy over a script that runs
> there, wrapping ktest.pl up with other stuff, I didn't miss the fact
> that ktest itself can run remotely already, did I?

I'm a little confused by this question. Do you want a server ktest? That
is, have a ktest daemon that listens for clients that sends it config
files and then runs them? That would actually be a fun project ;-)

You're not running ktest on the target machine are you? The way I use it
is the following:

I have a server that I ssh to and run ktest from. It does all the builds
there on the server and this server has a means to monitor some target.
I use ttywatch that connects to the serial of the target, in which ktest
uses to read from.

Sometimes this "server" is the machine I'm logged in to.  And I just run
ktest directly.

Can you explain more of what you are looking for?

Thanks!

-- Steve