1. 18 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite · e8d31c20
      Jason Wessel 提交于
      This patch adds regression tests for testing the kgdb core and arch
      specific implementation.
      
      The kgdb test suite is designed to be built into the kernel and not as
      a module because it uses a number of low level kernel and kgdb
      primitives which should not be exported externally.
      
      The kgdb test suite is designed as a KGDB I/O module which
      simulates the communications that a debugger would have with kgdb.
      The tests are broken up in to a line by line and referenced here as
      a "get" which is kgdb requesting input and "put" which is kgdb
      sending a response.
      
      The kgdb suite can be invoked from the kernel command line
      arguments system or executed dynamically at run time.  The test
      suite uses the variable "kgdbts" to obtain the information about
      which tests to run and to configure the verbosity level.  The
      following are the various characters you can use with the kgdbts=
      line:
      
      When using the "kgdbts=" you only choose one of the following core
      test types:
      A = Run all the core tests silently
      V1 = Run all the core tests with minimal output
      V2 = Run all the core tests in debug mode
      
      You can also specify optional tests:
      N## = Go to sleep with interrupts of for ## seconds
            to test the HW NMI watchdog
      F## = Break at do_fork for ## iterations
      S## = Break at sys_open for ## iterations
      
      NOTE: that the do_fork and sys_open tests are mutually exclusive.
      
      To invoke the kgdb test suite from boot you use a kernel start
      argument as follows:
      	kgdbts=V1 kgdbwait
      Or if you wanted to perform the NMI test for 6 seconds and do_fork
      test for 100 forks, you could use:
      	kgdbts=V1N6F100 kgdbwait
      
      The test suite can also be invoked at run time with:
      echo kgdbts=V1N6F100 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
      Or as another example:
      echo kgdbts=V2 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
      
      When developing a new kgdb arch specific implementation or
      using these tests for the purpose of regression testing,
      several invocations are required.
      
      1) Boot with the test suite enabled by using the kernel arguments
            "kgdbts=V1F100 kgdbwait"
         ## If kgdb arch specific implementation has NMI use
            "kgdbts=V1N6F100
      
      2) After the system boot run the basic test.
      echo kgdbts=V1 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
      
      3) Run the concurrency tests.  It is best to use n+1
         while loops where n is the number of cpus you have
         in your system.  The example below uses only two
         loops.
      
      ## This tests break points on sys_open
      while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
      while [ 1 ] ; do find / > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
      echo kgdbts=V1S10000 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
      fg # and hit control-c
      fg # and hit control-c
      ## This tests break points on do_fork
      while [ 1 ] ; do date > /dev/null ; done &
      while [ 1 ] ; do date > /dev/null ; done &
      echo kgdbts=V1F1000 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts
      fg # and hit control-c
      Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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