Dear All, The Linux Test Project test suite <http://www.linuxtestproject.org> has been released for the month of June 2007. The latest version of the testsuite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux OS and can be found at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp-full-20070630.tgz?download. Our web site also contains other information such as: - A Linux test tools matrix - Technical papers - How To's on Linux testing - Code coverage analysis tool. Release Highlights: * Updation of OPEN_HPI_TESTSUITE from version 0.5.0 to 2.9.2 * Addition of 'writev06' testcase by <dmonakhov at openvz.org> to check for "fault in pages readable" functionality * Addition of 'SYSVIPC (containers)' testcases by <risrajak at linux.vnet.ibm.com> * KDUMP and UTSNAMESPACE testcases(s) getting more matured with more community contribution * Updation of 'fsx-linux' testcase to include new feature(s) including "Distributed filesystem coherency" by 'Andreas Dilger' * Patches to support arm eabi-compliant gcc for g-cov kernel * Many more patches to fix Bugs/anomalies in various test cases Note(s) from the Maintainer: * We have seen that the LTP mailing lists has become active for the last couple of months. Thanks to all who has made this happen. We as an integrated team can work hard to make this Project a resounding success. Following are the different milestones/activities that we aim to perform/achieve in the coming months: 1) Investigation into LTP Log(s) Library to make this more meaningful and parsible. Kindly provide your inputs for the output that LTP generates now and whether/how you would like it to be in future 2) Investigate all the existing test cases and find out whether they are relevant to today's testing of higher Kernel versions. If not, then how do we mold it to test the present day scenarios/functionalities/regressions ?? And when you investigate them you can look into the following points as well: * Investigate & understand what the testcase is supposed to do, and increase documentation content/comments on the same testcase, * Make the test case completely full proof to error/exception handling, * See whether more Log library calls(existing) need to be made to communicate more info to the Log Library for reporting errors/exceptions etc, * Is there any need to change the code to improve the stress testing the testcase is doing ?? or do we need to add a new testcase for doing a separate stress, but, for the same functionality ?? 3) LTP today does not cover more than 60% of the Kernel Code coverage. We need to write more test cases for all those functionalities which are not tested by LTP today. I promise your new test case will see the light of next release without fail, 4) LTP wiki will be active in coming days, where we will post all those activities going on inside LTP, More community contribution from all of you will decide whether all of these above milestones are truly and successfully completed. Kindly Pour in your suggestions on all those that you want to see in LTP. New Testcases to be Added to next releases: Following are the new testcases that we intend(tentative) to add in the next release(s) of LTP: 1) Real Time Linux Testcases 2) CPU Sets Testcases We encourage the community to post results to ltp-results at lists.sf.net, and patches, new tests, bugs or comments/questions to ltp-list at lists.sf.net, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=103382 (for New Bug(s)), http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=303382 (for New Patch(s)), http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=353382 (for New Feature Request(s)) Please also see the ChangeLog Below (June 2007): 1)Log Message: "carmelo.amoroso at st.com" points out the wrong usage of the option -s File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest06/mmap1.c 2)Log Message: "carmelo.amoroso at st.com" pointed out that id (returned by shmget) has to be used for all shm operations File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest06/shmat1.c 3)Log Message: "rsalveti at linux.vnet.ibm.com" fixed the way "inotify" should compile in kernels below 2.6.13 File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/inotify/inotify02.c 4)Log Message: Removing 'alarm04' testcase call, as alarm04 has been removed to be no-more-valid File(s) Affected: ltp/runtest/ltplite ltp/runtest/stress.part3 5)Log Message: "sachinp at in.ibm.com" rectified kdump lkdtm tests for powerpc architecture with RedHat distribution File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kdump/rhtools/lkdtm_mod/lkdtm.c 6)Log Message: "rahaman.riaz at gmail.com" fixed some Thread Handling Anomaly File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/mq_timedsend/12-1.c 7)Log Message: "rahaman.riaz at gmail.com" fixed ways by which OPEN POSIX displays warnings File(s) Affected: open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/sem_unlink/2-2.c open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/sigaltstack/9-1.c 8)Log Message: "yxu at suse.de" corrected the way by which pthread_exit() handles pointer argument File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/io/disktest/threading.h 9)Log Message: "rsalveti at linux.vnet.ibm.com" fixed the problem reported at bug [1732287] mtest06/mmap1.c missing run_once check in do loop File(s) Affected: ltp/runtest/ltplite ltp/runtest/mm ltp/runtest/stress.part1 ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest06/mmap1.c 10)Log Message: gcov-kernel: add patches to support arm eabi-compliant gcc File(s) Affected: /ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.18-gcov-arm-eabi.patch /ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.19-gcov-arm-eabi.patch /ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.20-gcov-arm-eabi.patch /ltp/utils/analysis/gcov-kernel/linux-2.6.21-gcov-arm-eabi.diff 11)Log Message: "dmonakhov at openvz.org" added this test case to check for "fault in pages readable" functionality File(s) Affected: ltp/runtest/stress.part3 ltp/runtest/syscalls ltp/runtest/ltplite File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/writev/writev06.c 12)Log Message: "risrajak at linux.vnet.ibm.com" added sysvipc (conatainers) namespace testcases File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/sysvipc/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/sysvipc/runipcnstest.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/sysvipc/runtests_noltp.sh ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/sysvipc/shmnstest.c File(s) Affected: ltp/README ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/README ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/container_test.sh 13)Log Message: Randy Dunlap writes: Convert kernel/sched/pthreads/*.c to use the standard message output functions instead of printf(). File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/sched/pthreads/pth_str01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/sched/pthreads/pth_str02.c ltp/testcases/kernel/sched/pthreads/pth_str03.c 14)Log Message: "rdunlap at xenotime.net" did "mmstress" cleanups to make output unbuffered so that it is not produced repetitively and erroneously File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest05/mmstress.c 15)Log Message: "krisw at us.ibm.com" wants to solve segfault problem with "mount03" on SLES10 File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/mount/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls/mount/mount03.c 16)Log Message: as Ricardo Salveti de Araujo points out, dont set CC so it can easily be overridden File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/utsname/Makefile 17)Log Message: "Andreas Dilger" updated "fsx-linux" testcase to include new feature(s) including distributed filesystem coherency Log Message: Copyright Statements once added cannot be deleted, however, many Copyright Statements can co-exist File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/fs/fsx-linux/fsx-linux.c 18)Log Message: Fix from "rdunlap at xenotime.net" to use standard test results output File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mem/mem01.c ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest01/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest01/mtest01.c ltp/testcases/misc/math/float/main.c 19)Log Mesage: "serue at us.ibm.com" fixes conatiner testing with 'unshare' support for lower kernel versions File(s) Affected: ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/Makefile ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/container_test.sh 20)Log Message: Fix for Bug no "1736357",tar file is not multiplatform, pointed out by "Neil Brewitt" File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/network/nfsv4/locks/deploy_info File(s) Deleted: ltp/testcases/network/nfsv4/locks/DEPLOY 21)Log Message: "serue at us.ibm.com" fixes conatiner testing with 'unshare' support for lower kernel versions File(s) Added: ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/check_for_unshare.c 22)Log Message: Update to OpenHPI 2.9.2 File(s) Addedd/Modified/Deleted: ltp/testcases/open_hpi_testsuite/ Happy testing, Regards & Thanks-- Subrata Modak,
