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<title>ktest: Fix ktest confusion with CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA</title>
<updated>2012-10-26T04:10:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-26T04:10:32+00:00</published>
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In order to decide if ktest should bother installing modules on the
target box, it checks if the config file has CONFIG_MODULES=y. But it
also checks if the '=y' part exists. It only will install modules if the
config exists and is set with '=y'. But as the regex that was used
tests:

  /^CONFIG_MODULES(=y)?/

this will also match:

  CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA

as the '=y' part was optional and it did not test the rest of the line.
When this happens, ktest will stop checking the rest of the configs but
it will also think that no modules are needed to be installed. What it
should do is only jump out of the loop if it actually found a
CONFIG_MODULES that is set to true.

Otherwise, ktest wont install the necessary modules needed for proper
booting of the test target.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In order to decide if ktest should bother installing modules on the
target box, it checks if the config file has CONFIG_MODULES=y. But it
also checks if the '=y' part exists. It only will install modules if the
config exists and is set with '=y'. But as the regex that was used
tests:

  /^CONFIG_MODULES(=y)?/

this will also match:

  CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA

as the '=y' part was optional and it did not test the rest of the line.
When this happens, ktest will stop checking the rest of the configs but
it will also think that no modules are needed to be installed. What it
should do is only jump out of the loop if it actually found a
CONFIG_MODULES that is set to true.

Otherwise, ktest wont install the necessary modules needed for proper
booting of the test target.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T01:28:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-12T01:28:52+00:00</published>
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Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
 "kconfig in v3.7 is going to
   - initialize ncurses only once in menuconfig
   - be able to jump to a search result in menuconfig
   - change the misnomer oldnoconfig to a more meaningful name
     olddefconfig, keeping the old name as alias"

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old name as an alias
  menuconfig: Assign jump keys per-page instead of globally
  menuconfig: Do not open code textbox scroll up/down
  menuconfig: Add jump keys to search results
  menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can return to a scrolled position
  menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can exit on arbitrary keypresses
  menuconfig: Remove superfluous conditionnal
  kconfig: document oldnoconfig to what it really does in conf.c
  kconfig/mconf.c: revision of curses initialization.
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Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
 "kconfig in v3.7 is going to
   - initialize ncurses only once in menuconfig
   - be able to jump to a search result in menuconfig
   - change the misnomer oldnoconfig to a more meaningful name
     olddefconfig, keeping the old name as alias"

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old name as an alias
  menuconfig: Assign jump keys per-page instead of globally
  menuconfig: Do not open code textbox scroll up/down
  menuconfig: Add jump keys to search results
  menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can return to a scrolled position
  menuconfig: Extend dialog_textbox so that it can exit on arbitrary keypresses
  menuconfig: Remove superfluous conditionnal
  kconfig: document oldnoconfig to what it really does in conf.c
  kconfig/mconf.c: revision of curses initialization.
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<title>kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old name as an alias</title>
<updated>2012-09-27T16:18:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Lee</name>
<email>adam8157@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-31T17:05:17+00:00</published>
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As 67d34a6a391369269a2e5dba8a5f42cc4cd50231 said, 'oldnoconfig' doesn't
set new symbols to 'n', but instead sets it to their default values.

So, this patch replaces 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', stop making
people confused, and keep the old name 'oldnoconfig' as an alias,
because people already are dependent on its behavior with the
counter-intuitive name.

Signed-off-by: Adam Lee &lt;adam8157@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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As 67d34a6a391369269a2e5dba8a5f42cc4cd50231 said, 'oldnoconfig' doesn't
set new symbols to 'n', but instead sets it to their default values.

So, this patch replaces 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', stop making
people confused, and keep the old name 'oldnoconfig' as an alias,
because people already are dependent on its behavior with the
counter-intuitive name.

Signed-off-by: Adam Lee &lt;adam8157@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>ktest: Fix ELSE IF statements</title>
<updated>2012-09-26T18:48:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-26T18:48:17+00:00</published>
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The ELSE IF statements do not work as expected if another ELSE statement
follows. This is because the $if_set is not set. If the ELSE IF
condition is true, the following ELSE should be ignored. But because the
$if_set is not set, the following ELSE will also be executed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ELSE IF statements do not work as expected if another ELSE statement
follows. This is because the $if_set is not set. If the ELSE IF
condition is true, the following ELSE should be ignored. But because the
$if_set is not set, the following ELSE will also be executed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ktest: Allow perl regex expressions in conditional statements</title>
<updated>2012-07-30T18:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T18:37:01+00:00</published>
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Add '=~' and '!~' to the list of allowed conditionals for DEFAULT and
TEST_START section if statements.

ie.

 TEST_START IF TEST =~ .*test$

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add '=~' and '!~' to the list of allowed conditionals for DEFAULT and
TEST_START section if statements.

ie.

 TEST_START IF TEST =~ .*test$

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ktest: Ignore errors it tests if IGNORE_ERRORS is set</title>
<updated>2012-07-30T18:33:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T18:30:53+00:00</published>
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The option IGNORE_ERRORS is used to allow a test to succeed even if a
warning appears from the kernel. Sometimes kernels will produce warnings
that are not associated with a test, and the user wants to test
something else.

The IGNORE_ERRORS works for boot up, but was not preventing test runs to
succeed if the kernel produced a warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The option IGNORE_ERRORS is used to allow a test to succeed even if a
warning appears from the kernel. Sometimes kernels will produce warnings
that are not associated with a test, and the user wants to test
something else.

The IGNORE_ERRORS works for boot up, but was not preventing test runs to
succeed if the kernel produced a warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ktest: Reset saved min (force) configs for each test</title>
<updated>2012-07-21T02:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-21T02:39:16+00:00</published>
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The min configs are saved in a perl hash called force_configs, and this
hash is used to add configs to the .config file. But it was not being
reset between tests and a min config from a previous test would affect
the min config of the next test causing undesirable results.

Reset the force_config hash at the start of each test.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The min configs are saved in a perl hash called force_configs, and this
hash is used to add configs to the .config file. But it was not being
reset between tests and a min config from a previous test would affect
the min config of the next test causing undesirable results.

Reset the force_config hash at the start of each test.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ktest: Add check for bug or panic during reboot</title>
<updated>2012-07-19T20:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-19T20:08:33+00:00</published>
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Usually the target is booted into a dependable kernel when a test
starts. The test will install the test kernel and reboot the box. But
there may be a time that the kernel is running an unreliable kernel and
the reboot may crash.

Have ktest detect crashes on a reboot and force a power-cycle instead.

This can usually happen if a test kernel was installed to run manual
tests, but the user forgot to reboot to the known good kernel.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Usually the target is booted into a dependable kernel when a test
starts. The test will install the test kernel and reboot the box. But
there may be a time that the kernel is running an unreliable kernel and
the reboot may crash.

Have ktest detect crashes on a reboot and force a power-cycle instead.

This can usually happen if a test kernel was installed to run manual
tests, but the user forgot to reboot to the known good kernel.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ktest: Add MAX_MONITOR_WAIT option</title>
<updated>2012-07-19T20:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-19T20:05:42+00:00</published>
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If the console is constantly outputting content, this can cause ktest
to get stuck waiting on the monitor to settle down.

The option MAX_MONITOR_WAIT is the maximum time (in seconds) for ktest
to wait for the console to flush.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If the console is constantly outputting content, this can cause ktest
to get stuck waiting on the monitor to settle down.

The option MAX_MONITOR_WAIT is the maximum time (in seconds) for ktest
to wait for the console to flush.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ktest: Fix config bisect with how make oldnoconfig works</title>
<updated>2012-07-19T19:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-19T19:29:43+00:00</published>
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With a name like 'oldnoconfig' one may think that the config generated
would disable all configs that were not defined (selecting "no" for all
options). But this is not the case. It selects the default. If a config
has a 'default y', then it is added if not specified.

This broke the config bisect, because options not specified by a config
will just use the default, where it expected to turn off. This caused an
option to be enabled that disabled an option that would break the build.
The end result was that we never found the bad config at the end of the
test.

Instead of using 'make oldnoconfig', ktest now builds the options it
expects enabled and disabled. When it turns off an option, it will no
longer remove it, but actually set it to:

 # CONFIG_FOO is not set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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With a name like 'oldnoconfig' one may think that the config generated
would disable all configs that were not defined (selecting "no" for all
options). But this is not the case. It selects the default. If a config
has a 'default y', then it is added if not specified.

This broke the config bisect, because options not specified by a config
will just use the default, where it expected to turn off. This caused an
option to be enabled that disabled an option that would break the build.
The end result was that we never found the bad config at the end of the
test.

Instead of using 'make oldnoconfig', ktest now builds the options it
expects enabled and disabled. When it turns off an option, it will no
longer remove it, but actually set it to:

 # CONFIG_FOO is not set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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