[PATCH v2 1/6] python3-kirk: Add version 4.0.0

[PATCH v2 1/6] python3-kirk: Add version 4.0.0

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

Kirk application is a fork of runltp-ng and it’s the official LTP
tests executor.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
---

v2: use pypi bbclass instead of github repository
---
 meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc         |  1 +
 .../python3-kirk/python3-kirk_4.0.0.bb           | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/python3-kirk/python3-kirk_4.0.0.bb

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index f9a600ff11..9cd58dbac0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jinja2 = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfound
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jsonpointer = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jsonschema = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-jsonschema-specifications = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-kirk = "Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-libarchive-c = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-license-expression = "Wang Mingyu <wangmy@fujitsu.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-lxml = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/python3-kirk/python3-kirk_4.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/python3-kirk/python3-kirk_4.0.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..af53d2edf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/python3-kirk/python3-kirk_4.0.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+SUMMARY = "Linux Test Project tests executor"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/linux-test-project/kirk"
+DESCRIPTION = "Kirk application is a fork of runltp-ng and it’s the official \
+LTP tests executor. It provides support for remote testing via Qemu, SSH, \
+LTX, parallel execution and much more."
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=39bba7d2cf0ba1036f2a6e2be52fe3f0"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "4606f46dfdb7be1e1c2de8d8f040037459a9de8a07fa1123cee4b68c7f7cb764"
+
+inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
+
+PYPI_PACKAGE = "kirk"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-asyncio python3-json"

[PATCH v2 2/6] ltp: disable min_free_kbytes

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

It casues OOM regardless of the configuration

There is a bug in ltp, fixed in a newer version
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/commit/355124aea99c7c7d40140c969a53ed892421dee9

min_free_kbytes: Connection to 192.168.7.2 closed by remote host.

NOTE: test_ltp_runltp_cve (ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_runltp_cve)
NOTE:  ... skipped "Test case ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_runltp_cve depends on ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_groups but it didn't pass/run."
Test case ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_runltp_cve depends on ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_groups but it didn't pass/run.
NOTE: ======================================================================
NOTE: FAIL: test_ltp_groups (ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_groups)
NOTE: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Pratik Farkase <pratik.farkase@est.tech>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
---
If it needs to be added, we can revert this and have the backported patch.
We need further testing to enable this again
---
 meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
index dcd1e81398..0b4f9c1ad5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ do_install(){
     # The controllers memcg_stree test seems to cause us hangs and takes 900s
     # (maybe we expect more regular output?), anyhow, skip it
     sed -e '/^memcg_stress/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/controllers
+
+    # min_free_kbytes can be disruptive on constrained targets
+    sed -e '/^min_free_kbytes/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/mm
 }
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\

[PATCH v2 3/6] ltp: disable pty testcase

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

On qemux86-64 with 1 CPU, 4GB causes an OOM on the following
test cases: pty07 and ptem02

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
---
We further investigate the root cause and fix the causing issue
---
 meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
index 0ffdbe23e4..4f7498fcbd 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class LtpTestBase(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
 class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
 
-    ltp_groups = ["math", "syscalls", "dio", "mm", "sched", "nptl", "pty", "containers", "controllers", "fcntl-locktests", "commands", "net.ipv6_lib", "input","fs_perms_simple", "cve", "crypto", "ima", "net.nfs", "net_stress.ipsec_icmp", "net.ipv6", "numa", "uevent", "ltp-aiodio.part1", "ltp-aiodio.part2", "ltp-aiodio.part3", "ltp-aiodio.part4"]
+    ltp_groups = ["math", "syscalls", "dio", "mm", "sched", "nptl", "containers", "controllers", "fcntl-locktests", "commands", "net.ipv6_lib", "input","fs_perms_simple", "cve", "crypto", "ima", "net.nfs", "net_stress.ipsec_icmp", "net.ipv6", "numa", "uevent", "ltp-aiodio.part1", "ltp-aiodio.part2", "ltp-aiodio.part3", "ltp-aiodio.part4"]
 
     ltp_fs = ["fs", "fs_bind"]
     # skip kernel cpuhotplug

[PATCH v2 4/6] ltp: disable cve failing testcases

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

On a qemux86-64 with 1 CPU the following testcases causes an OOM

CVE-2020-36557 and CVE-2018-13405

Test cases triggers memory deadlock kernel panic with CVE-2018-13405

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
---
We will investigate why to be able to enable them again
---
 meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
index 0b4f9c1ad5..e5da94855f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ do_install(){
 
     # min_free_kbytes can be disruptive on constrained targets
     sed -e '/^min_free_kbytes/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/mm
+
+    # cve-2018-13405 triggers memory deadlock kernel panic on constrained targets
+    sed -e '/^cve-2018-13405/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/cve
+
+    # cve-2020-36557 triggers memory deadlock kernel panic on constrained targets
+    sed -e '/^cve-2020-36557/d' -i ${D}${prefix}/runtest/cve
 }
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\

[PATCH v2 5/6] oeqa: replace runltp with kirk

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

runltp has been removed from ltp and the official tool to invoke ltp
test is kirk.

Message when running runltp:

"INFO: runltp script is deprecated, try kirk
https://github.com/linux-test-project/kirk"

See also:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/commit/6efd3605dc005c3ed135b463f182174e24bdce1b

The test coverage is the same since the logic there is not touched
but the output is different. The return value from oeqa are the same
as before.

Now it is a json file with the results, which is machine readable
without any extra parsing. Two files are created by test suite
<test>.json and <test>-raw.log

Output example of math.json:
{
    "results": [
        {
            "test_fqn": "abs01",
            "status": "pass",
            "test": {
                "command": "abs01",
                "arguments": [],
                "log": "abs01       1  TPASS  :  Test passed\nabs01       2  TPASS  :  Test passed\nabs01       3  TPASS  :  Test passed\n",
                "retval": [
                    "0"
                ],
                "duration": 0.002702474594116211,
                "failed": 0,
                "passed": 3,
                "broken": 0,
                "skipped": 0,
                "warnings": 0,
                "result": "pass"
            }
        }, [...]
    ],
    "stats": {
        "runtime": 1.4888691902160645,
        "passed": 22,
        "failed": 0,
        "broken": 0,
        "skipped": 0,
        "warnings": 0
    },
    "environment": {
        "distribution": "nodistro",
        "distribution_version": "nodistro.0",
        "kernel": "Linux 6.18.13-yocto-standard #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar  3 16:48:55 UTC 2026",
        "cmdline": "root=/dev/vda rw  ip=192.168.7.2::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:off:8.8.8.8 net.ifnames=0 console=ttyS0 console=ttyS1 oprofile.timer=1 tsc=reliable no_timer_check rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 swiotlb=0  printk.time=1",
        "arch": "x86_64",
        "cpu": "unknown",
        "swap": "0 kB",
        "RAM": "222368 kB"
    }
}

Add in configuration file (local.conf)

IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "ltp openssh"
TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh ltp"
QB_MEM = <mem size>
QB_CPU_KVM = "-cpu host -smp <cpus>"
QB_SMP = "-smp <cpus>"
QB_KVM = "1"
IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "2097152"

Tested with different VM sizes and architectures:

qemux86-64 MEM: 4096, CPU: 2 (all ok)
qemux86-64 MEM: 1024, CPU: 1 (all ok)
qemux86-64 MEM: 1024, CPU: 2 (all ok)
qemux86-64 MEM: 1024, CPU: 4 (all ok)
qemuarm64: MEM: 4096, CPU: 1 (all ok)
qemuriscv64: MEM 4096, CPU 4 (all ok)

Then:
bitbake core-image-minimal
bitbake core-image-minimal -c testimage

With these configs we didn't see any testimage failures with kirk and
run completes.

If we revert the ltp disable patches below, the testimage does not fail
but it gives warnings, since the ssh connection gets droped from the DUT
because of the OOM killer. Then in continues with the next testsuite.

* ltp: disable cve failing testcases
* ltp: disable pty testcase
* ltp: disable min_free_kbytes

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Pratik Farkase <pratik.farkase@est.tech>
Assisted-by: Claude, Anthropic
---

v2:
  - replace LtpParser with functionality to parse output from kirk
  - improve commit message
  - add timeout to kirk for 20 minutes, same as the ssh connection
  - add try, except to handle exceptions in the run and be able to
    continue with the next test suite
  - tested with more configurations
---
 meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py        | 21 ++++++----
 meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp_stress.py | 12 +++++-
 meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py          | 51 ++++++++---------------
 meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb |  1 +
 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
index 4f7498fcbd..b855e76907 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
 
     def runltp(self, ltp_group):
             # LTP appends to log files, so ensure we start with a clean log
-            self.target.deleteFiles("/opt/ltp/results/", ltp_group)
+            self.target.deleteFiles("/opt/ltp/results/", "%s.json" % ltp_group)
 
-            cmd = '/opt/ltp/runltp -f %s -q -r /opt/ltp -l /opt/ltp/results/%s -I 1 -d /opt/ltp' % (ltp_group, ltp_group)
+            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m' % (ltp_group, ltp_group)
 
             starttime = time.time()
             (status, output) = self.target.run(cmd, timeout=1200)
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
             self.extras['ltpresult.rawlogs']['log'] = self.extras['ltpresult.rawlogs']['log'] + output
 
             # Copy the machine-readable test results locally so we can parse it
-            dst = os.path.join(self.ltptest_log_dir, ltp_group)
-            remote_src = "/opt/ltp/results/%s" % ltp_group 
+            dst = os.path.join(self.ltptest_log_dir, "%s.json" % ltp_group)
+            remote_src = "/opt/ltp/results/%s.json" % ltp_group
             (status, output) = self.target.copyFrom(remote_src, dst, True)
             if status:
                 msg = 'File could not be copied. Output: %s' % output
@@ -113,16 +113,21 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
 
     # LTP runtime tests
     @OETestDepends(['ssh.SSHTest.test_ssh'])
-    @OEHasPackage(["ltp"])
+    @OEHasPackage(["ltp", "python3-kirk"])
     def test_ltp_help(self):
-        (status, output) = self.target.run('/opt/ltp/runltp --help')
+        (status, output) = self.target.run('kirk --help')
         msg = 'Failed to get ltp help. Output: %s' % output
         self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg=msg)
 
     @OETestDepends(['ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_help'])
     def test_ltp_groups(self):
-        for ltp_group in self.ltp_groups: 
-            self.runltp(ltp_group)
+        for ltp_group in self.ltp_groups:
+            try:
+                self.runltp(ltp_group)
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.extras['ltpresult.%s' % ltp_group] = {'status': 'FAILED'}
+                self.failmsg = self.failmsg + "Suite %s crashed: %s\n" % (ltp_group, e)
+                self.target.logger.warning("Suite %s crashed, continuing: %s" % (ltp_group, e))
 
     @OETestDepends(['ltp.LtpTest.test_ltp_groups'])
     def test_ltp_runltp_cve(self):
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp_stress.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp_stress.py
index ce6f4bf59d..c902486eab 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp_stress.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp_stress.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class LtpStressBase(OERuntimeTestCase):
 class LtpStressTest(LtpStressBase):
 
     def runltp(self, stress_group):
-            cmd = '/opt/ltp/runltp -f %s -p -q 2>@1 | tee /opt/ltp/results/%s' % (stress_group, stress_group)
+            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp' % (stress_group, stress_group)
             starttime = time.time()
             (status, output) = self.target.run(cmd)
             endtime = time.time()
@@ -69,8 +69,16 @@ class LtpStressTest(LtpStressBase):
 
             self.extras['ltpstressresult.rawlogs']['log'] = self.extras['ltpstressresult.rawlogs']['log'] + output
 
+            # Copy kirk JSON report from target
+            dst = os.path.join(self.ltptest_log_dir, "%s.json" % stress_group)
+            remote_src = "/opt/ltp/results/%s.json" % stress_group
+            (status, output) = self.target.copyFrom(remote_src, dst, True)
+            if status:
+                msg = 'File could not be copied. Output: %s' % output
+                self.target.logger.warning(msg)
+
             parser = LtpParser()
-            results, sections  = parser.parse(os.path.join(self.ltptest_log_dir, "%s" % stress_group))
+            results, sections  = parser.parse(dst)
 
             runtime = int(endtime-starttime)
             sections['duration'] = runtime
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
index c479864162..d445b4e2a0 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/logparser.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 #
 
-import enum
+import json
 import os
 import re
 
@@ -116,44 +116,29 @@ class PtestParser(object):
 
 class LtpParser:
     """
-    Parse the machine-readable LTP log output into a ptest-friendly data structure.
+    Parse kirk JSON report into a ptest-friendly data structure.
     """
+
+    STATUS_MAP = {
+        "pass": "PASSED",
+        "fail": "FAILED",
+        "brok": "FAILED",
+        "conf": "SKIPPED",
+        "warn": "PASSED",
+    }
+
     def parse(self, logfile):
+        with open(logfile, errors="replace") as f:
+            report = json.load(f)
+
         results = {}
-        # Aaccumulate the duration here but as the log rounds quick tests down
-        # to 0 seconds this is very much a lower bound. The caller can replace
-        # the value.
         section = {"duration": 0, "log": ""}
 
-        class LtpExitCode(enum.IntEnum):
-            # Exit codes as defined in ltp/include/tst_res_flags.h
-            TPASS = 0  # Test passed flag
-            TFAIL = 1  # Test failed flag
-            TBROK = 2  # Test broken flag
-            TWARN = 4  # Test warning flag
-            TINFO = 16 # Test information flag
-            TCONF = 32 # Test not appropriate for configuration flag
-
-        with open(logfile, errors="replace") as f:
-            # Lines look like this:
-            # tag=cfs_bandwidth01 stime=1689762564 dur=0 exit=exited stat=32 core=no cu=0 cs=0
-            for line in f:
-                if not line.startswith("tag="):
-                    continue
+        for entry in report.get("results", []):
+            results[entry["test_fqn"]] = self.STATUS_MAP.get(entry.get("status", ""), "FAILED")
+            section["log"] += entry.get("test", {}).get("log", "")
 
-                values = dict(s.split("=") for s in line.strip().split())
-
-                section["duration"] += int(values["dur"])
-                exitcode = int(values["stat"])
-                if values["exit"] == "exited" and exitcode == LtpExitCode.TCONF:
-                    # Exited normally with the "invalid configuration" code
-                    results[values["tag"]] = "SKIPPED"
-                elif exitcode == LtpExitCode.TPASS:
-                    # Successful exit
-                    results[values["tag"]] = "PASSED"
-                else:
-                    # Other exit
-                    results[values["tag"]] = "FAILED"
+        section["duration"] = int(report.get("stats", {}).get("runtime", 0))
 
         return results, section
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
index e5da94855f..4183b5d497 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/ltp/ltp_20260130.bb
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
     net-tools \
     perl \
     python3-core \
+    python3-kirk \
     procps \
     quota \
     unzip \

[PATCH v2 6/6] oeqa: ltp - add LTP_WORKERS to allow parallelization

[daniel.turull]

From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>

Add new configurable variable to execute multiple workers in parallel.
kirk adds the option that was not available in runltp.

Tested in qemux86-64 with configuration:

IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "ltp openssh"
TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh ltp"
QB_MEM = "32768"
QB_CPU_KVM = "-cpu host -smp 16"
QB_SMP = "-smp 16"
LTP_WORKERS = "16"
IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "2097152"

bitbake core-image-minimal
bitbake core-image-minimal -c testimage

Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
---
 meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
index b855e76907..ae6a275110 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
             # LTP appends to log files, so ensure we start with a clean log
             self.target.deleteFiles("/opt/ltp/results/", "%s.json" % ltp_group)
 
-            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m' % (ltp_group, ltp_group)
+            # LTP_WORKERS: number of parallel test workers (default: 1)
+            workers = self.td.get('LTP_WORKERS', '1')
+            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m --workers %s' % (ltp_group, ltp_group, workers)
 
             starttime = time.time()
             (status, output) = self.target.run(cmd, timeout=1200)

Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] oeqa: ltp - add LTP_WORKERS to allow parallelization

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2026-03-27 at 13:27 +0100, daniel.turull@ericsson.com wrote:
> From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
> 
> Add new configurable variable to execute multiple workers in parallel.
> kirk adds the option that was not available in runltp.
> 
> Tested in qemux86-64 with configuration:
> 
> IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "ltp openssh"
> TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh ltp"
> QB_MEM = "32768"
> QB_CPU_KVM = "-cpu host -smp 16"
> QB_SMP = "-smp 16"
> LTP_WORKERS = "16"
> IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "2097152"
> 
> bitbake core-image-minimal
> bitbake core-image-minimal -c testimage
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
> ---
>  meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for looking at this, it is interesting it now has the
parallelism support. I'll probably hold off this initially just so that
we can transition successfully but it then makes sense to tweak things.

I checked yocto-autobuilder-helper's config.json for the config we use
on the autobuilder and it is:

"IMAGE_INSTALL:append = ' ltp'",
"TEST_SUITES = 'ping ssh ltp ltp_compliance'",
"IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR = '1.0'",
"IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = '1324288'",
"QB_MEM:forcevariable = '-m 1024'"

so we're running with a lot less memory than you configured but you
also have a lot more threads!

> diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> index b855e76907..ae6a275110 100644
> --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
>              # LTP appends to log files, so ensure we start with a clean log
>              self.target.deleteFiles("/opt/ltp/results/", "%s.json" % ltp_group)
>  
> -            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m' % (ltp_group, ltp_group)
> +            # LTP_WORKERS: number of parallel test workers (default: 1)
> +            workers = self.td.get('LTP_WORKERS', '1')
> +            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m --workers %s' % (ltp_group, ltp_group, workers)

We probably need to namespace the variable a little more, such as 
OEQA_LTP_WORKERS so that people have a hint on where it is used.

Cheers,

Richard

RE: [PATCH v2 6/6] oeqa: ltp - add LTP_WORKERS to allow parallelization

[Daniel Turull]

Sure, we can keep this for later after the release.
I can have another one with the ltp_groups to be configurable and not hard code in the ltp.py

I'll send a new series for the patches that do not make if for this release.

Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Friday, 27 March 2026 16:37
> To: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>; openembedded-
> core@lists.openembedded.org
> Cc: bruce.ashfield@gmail.com; alex.kanavin@gmail.com;
> pratik.farkase@est.tech
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] oeqa: ltp - add LTP_WORKERS to allow parallelization
> 
> On Fri, 2026-03-27 at 13:27 +0100, daniel.turull@ericsson.com wrote:
> > From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
> >
> > Add new configurable variable to execute multiple workers in parallel.
> > kirk adds the option that was not available in runltp.
> >
> > Tested in qemux86-64 with configuration:
> >
> > IMAGE_CLASSES += "testimage"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "ltp openssh"
> > TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh ltp"
> > QB_MEM = "32768"
> > QB_CPU_KVM = "-cpu host -smp 16"
> > QB_SMP = "-smp 16"
> > LTP_WORKERS = "16"
> > IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "2097152"
> >
> > bitbake core-image-minimal
> > bitbake core-image-minimal -c testimage
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Thanks for looking at this, it is interesting it now has the parallelism support. I'll
> probably hold off this initially just so that we can transition successfully but it then
> makes sense to tweak things.
> 
> I checked yocto-autobuilder-helper's config.json for the config we use on the
> autobuilder and it is:
> 
> "IMAGE_INSTALL:append = ' ltp'",
> "TEST_SUITES = 'ping ssh ltp ltp_compliance'", "IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR =
> '1.0'", "IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = '1324288'", "QB_MEM:forcevariable = '-
> m 1024'"
> 
> so we're running with a lot less memory than you configured but you also have a
> lot more threads!
> 
> > diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> > b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> > index b855e76907..ae6a275110 100644
> > --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> > +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ltp.py
> > @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ class LtpTest(LtpTestBase):
> >              # LTP appends to log files, so ensure we start with a
> > clean log
> >              self.target.deleteFiles("/opt/ltp/results/", "%s.json" %
> > ltp_group)
> >
> > -            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report
> > /opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m' %
> > (ltp_group, ltp_group)
> > +            # LTP_WORKERS: number of parallel test workers (default:
> > +1)
> > +            workers = self.td.get('LTP_WORKERS', '1')
> > +            cmd = 'kirk --run-suite %s --json-report
> > +/opt/ltp/results/%s.json -n -d /opt/ltp --exec-timeout 20m --workers
> > +%s' % (ltp_group, ltp_group, workers)
> 
> We probably need to namespace the variable a little more, such as
> OEQA_LTP_WORKERS so that people have a hint on where it is used.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard