Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Require kvm-xfstests smoke for ext4

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 07:43:50PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov <Nikolai.Kondrashov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/tests.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                     |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/tests.rst b/Documentation/process/tests.rst
> index 907311e91ec45..9a9ea3fe65c37 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/tests.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/tests.rst
> @@ -33,3 +33,35 @@ particularly useful:
>  
>  :Source: A URL pointing to the source code of the test suite
>  :Docs: A URL pointing to further test suite documentation
> +
> +xfstests
> +--------
> +
> +:Summary: File system regression test suite
> +:Source: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git

You might as well use the https link to the fstests git repo.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git

> +:Docs: https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/what-is-xfstests.md

Awkardly, this github link is nice for rendering the markdown as html,
but I think the canonical source of xfstests-bld is also kernel.org:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git

> +
> +As the name might imply, xfstests is a file system regression test suite which
> +was originally developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the XFS file system.
> +Originally, xfstests, like XFS was only supported on the SGI's Irix operating
> +system. When XFS was ported to Linux, so was xfstests, and now xfstests is
> +only supported on Linux.
> +
> +Today, xfstests is used as a file system regression test suite for all of
> +Linux's major file systems: xfs, ext2, ext4, cifs, btrfs, f2fs, reiserfs, gfs,
> +jfs, udf, nfs, and tmpfs. Many file system maintainers will run a full set of
> +xfstests before sending patches to Linus, and will require that any major
> +changes be tested using xfstests before they are submitted for integration.
> +
> +The easiest way to start running xfstests is under KVM with xfstests-bld:
> +https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md
> +
> +kvm-xfstests smoke
> +------------------
> +
> +:Summary: File system smoke tests
> +:Superset: xfstests

Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git

?

> +:Docs: https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md
> +
> +The "kvm-xfstests smoke" is a minimal subset of xfstests for testing all major
> +file systems, running under KVM.
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2565c04f0490e..f81a47d87ac26 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7974,6 +7974,7 @@ L:	linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
>  W:	http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org
>  Q:	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/list/
> +V:	kvm-xfstests smoke

I wouldn't mind one of these being added to the XFS entry, though I've
cc'd the current and past maintainer(s) of XFS for their input.

--D

>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>  F:	Documentation/filesystems/ext4/
>  F:	fs/ext4/
> -- 
> 2.42.0
> 




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