On 05/12/2017 08:49 PM, Omar Sandoval wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > At LSF/MM, we talked about the need for somewhere to dump tests for the > block layer/storage stack. I've put together a test suite inspired by > xfstests here: https://github.com/osandov/blktests. > > I started out with the opinion that we should reuse xfstests for this, > but it became clear that the requirements for testing block devices are > slightly different, and it diverged significantly from there. In > particular, blktests supports: > > - Per-device tests. You can configure a list of test devices and the > per-device tests will run on each one (currently in serial, we can > support parallel runs in the future if needed). > - No-device tests. Some tests don't need to run on real hardware, and we > can just set up a null-blk or scsi-debug device. > - Performance numbers. In addition to the output comparison pass/fail > that xfstests supports, blktests can also report arbitrary test > metrics which don't affect whether the test passes but can be useful > for spotting regressions. > > Jens and I wrote up an initial set of tests, but there are a lot more we > can still write. I'm also happy to take feature requests, just email me > or open an issue on the GitHub repo. \o/ You're my hero :-). Do you only accept github pull requests or do you accept patches via linux-block as well? As a side note, I'm currently working on a partition table fuzzer to stress block/partitions/*.c a bit. I think this could be included into your framework as well (it's only one .c file currently with no external dependencies). Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850
