From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> When I'm debugging something with the ftrace selftests and need to look at the logs, it becomes tedious that I need to do the following: ls -ltr logs [ copy the last directory ] ls logs/<paste-last-dir> to see where the logs are. Instead, do the common practice of having a "latest" softlink to the last run selftest. This way after running the selftest I only need to do: ls logs/latest/ and it will always give me the directory of the last run selftest logs! Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest index cb5f18c06593..7df8baa0f98f 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ parse_opts() { # opts ;; --logdir|-l) LOG_DIR=$2 + LINK_PTR= shift 2 ;; *.tc) @@ -181,7 +182,10 @@ fi TOP_DIR=`absdir $0` TEST_DIR=$TOP_DIR/test.d TEST_CASES=`find_testcases $TEST_DIR` -LOG_DIR=$TOP_DIR/logs/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`/ +LOG_TOP_DIR=$TOP_DIR/logs +LOG_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S` +LOG_DIR=$LOG_TOP_DIR/$LOG_DATE/ +LINK_PTR=$LOG_TOP_DIR/latest KEEP_LOG=0 KTAP=0 DEBUG=0 @@ -207,6 +211,10 @@ else LOG_FILE=$LOG_DIR/ftracetest.log mkdir -p $LOG_DIR || errexit "Failed to make a log directory: $LOG_DIR" date > $LOG_FILE + if [ "x-$LINK_PTR" != "x-" ]; then + unlink $LINK_PTR + ln -fs $LOG_DATE $LINK_PTR + fi fi # Define text colors