Re: [PATCH 13/13] misc: update documentation to reflect auto-generated group files

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:39:46PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/8/21 10:20 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Update the documentation to outline the new requirements for test files
> > so that we can generate group files during build.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Ok, that sounds about right
> Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks to you and Eric and Chandan for reviewing this!

--D

> 
> > ---
> >   README |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
> >   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/README b/README
> > index 048491a6..ab298ca9 100644
> > --- a/README
> > +++ b/README
> > @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Running tests:
> >       - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
> >       - ./check '*/06?'
> >       - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
> > -      See the 'group' file for details on groups
> > +      See the tests/*/group.list files after building xfstests to learn about
> > +      each test's group memberships.
> >       - If you want to run all tests regardless of what group they are in
> >         (including dangerous tests), use the "all" group: ./check -g all
> >       - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
> > @@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ Test script environment:
> >       When developing a new test script keep the following things in
> >       mind.  All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
> > -    available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
> > -    sourced.
> > +    available to the script once the "common/preamble" file has been
> > +    sourced and the "_begin_fstest" function has been called.
> >        1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory.  If you want to
> >   	do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do
> > @@ -249,6 +250,18 @@ Test script environment:
> >   	  in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
> >   	  and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
> > +     6. Test group membership: Each test can be associated with any number
> > +	of groups for convenient selection of subsets of tests.  Test names
> > +	can be any sequence of non-whitespace characters.  Test authors
> > +	associate a test with groups by passing the names of those groups as
> > +	arguments to the _begin_fstest function:
> > +
> > +	_begin_fstest auto quick subvol snapshot
> > +
> > +	The build process scans test files for _begin_fstest invocations and
> > +	compiles the group list from that information.  In other words, test
> > +	files must call _begin_fstest or they will not be run.
> > +
> >   Verified output:
> >       Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated
> > 



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