Re: [LTP] open posix testsuite and names of testcases

chrubis
2012-12-06T14:27:40Z

Hi!
> > this testsuite has many testcases, where binary name is in format: [number]-[number].run-test
> > This is not very helpful when trying to find out, which one actually
> > crashed or which one is responsible for kernel oops/hung tasks.
> > For example if I get in dmesg:
> > [ 702.018706] 1-5.run-test[10140]: segfault at 7f84e724bed8 ip 0000000000402208 sp 00007f84e724bed0 error 6 in 1-5.run-test[400000+4000]
> > it's not clear, which testcase is responsible.
>
> I met the same problem before because running the open_posix on recent RHEL6.4alpha and beta
> will cause kernel panic...

Which could still be fixed by a testdriver that ensures that the logfile
was written to the disk before each test is executed. But the renaming
is still a good idea because there may be a rare case where the
filesystem will be trashed.

--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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