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2 BUILDING THE FSQA SUITE
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5 - cd into the xfstests directory
6 - install prerequisite packages
7 For example, for Ubuntu:
8 sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool-bin \
9 e2fsprogs automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr make \
10 libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench \
11 uuid-runtime python sqlite3 liburing-dev libcap-dev
12 For Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS:
13 yum install acl attr automake bc dbench dump e2fsprogs fio \
14 gawk gcc indent libtool lvm2 make psmisc quota sed \
16 libacl-devel libaio-devel libuuid-devel \
17 xfsprogs-devel btrfs-progs-devel python sqlite liburing-devel \
19 (Older distributions may require xfsprogs-qa-devel as well.)
20 (Note that for RHEL and CentOS, you may need the EPEL repo.)
23 - create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd -m fsgqa")
24 - create fsgqa group ("sudo groupadd fsgqa")
25 - create 123456-fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd 123456-fsgqa")
26 this 2nd user creation step can be safely skipped if your system
27 doesn't support names starting with digits, only a handful of tests
29 - create fsgqa2 test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa2")
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35 Preparing system for tests:
37 - compile XFS into your kernel or load XFS modules
38 - install administrative tools specific to the filesystem you wish to test
39 - If you wish to run the udf components of the suite install
40 mkudffs. Also download and build the Philips UDF Verification Software
41 from https://www.lscdweb.com/registered/udf_verifier.html, then copy the udf_test
42 binary to xfstests/src/. If you wish to disable UDF verification test
43 set the environment variable DISABLE_UDF_TEST to 1.
45 - create one or two partitions to use for testing
47 - format as XFS, mount & optionally populate with
49 - one SCRATCH partition (optional)
50 - leave empty and expect this partition to be clobbered
51 by some tests. If this is not provided, many tests will
53 (SCRATCH and TEST must be two DIFFERENT partitions)
55 - for btrfs only: some btrfs test cases will need 3 or more independent
56 SCRATCH disks which should be set using SCRATCH_DEV_POOL (for eg:
57 SCRATCH_DEV_POOL="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc") with which
58 SCRATCH_DEV should be unused by the tester, and for the legacy
59 support SCRATCH_DEV will be set to the first disk of the
60 SCRATCH_DEV_POOL by xfstests script.
62 - setup your environment
64 - copy local.config.example to local.config and edit as needed
66 - setenv TEST_DEV "device containing TEST PARTITION"
67 - setenv TEST_DIR "mount point of TEST PARTITION"
69 - setenv SCRATCH_DEV "device containing SCRATCH PARTITION" OR
70 (btrfs only) setenv SCRATCH_DEV_POOL "to 3 or more SCRATCH disks for
71 testing btrfs raid concepts"
72 - setenv SCRATCH_MNT "mount point for SCRATCH PARTITION"
73 - setenv TAPE_DEV "tape device for testing xfsdump"
74 - setenv RMT_TAPE_DEV "remote tape device for testing xfsdump"
75 - setenv RMT_IRIXTAPE_DEV "remote IRIX tape device for testing xfsdump"
76 - setenv SCRATCH_LOGDEV "device for scratch-fs external log"
77 - setenv SCRATCH_RTDEV "device for scratch-fs realtime data"
78 - setenv TEST_LOGDEV "device for test-fs external log"
79 - setenv TEST_RTDEV "device for test-fs realtime data"
80 - if TEST_LOGDEV and/or TEST_RTDEV, these will always be used.
81 - if SCRATCH_LOGDEV and/or SCRATCH_RTDEV, the USE_EXTERNAL
82 environment variable set to "yes" will enable their use.
83 - setenv DIFF_LENGTH "number of diff lines to print from a failed test",
84 by default 10, set to 0 to print the full diff
85 - setenv FSTYP "the filesystem you want to test", the filesystem
86 type is devised from the TEST_DEV device, but you may want to
87 override it; if unset, the default is 'xfs'
88 - setenv FSSTRESS_AVOID and/or FSX_AVOID, which contain options
89 added to the end of fsstresss and fsx invocations, respectively,
90 in case you wish to exclude certain operational modes from these
92 - set TEST_XFS_REPAIR_REBUILD=1 to have _check_xfs_filesystem
93 run xfs_repair -n to check the filesystem; xfs_repair to rebuild
94 metadata indexes; and xfs_repair -n (a third time) to check the
95 results of the rebuilding.
96 - xfs_scrub, if present, will always check the test and scratch
97 filesystems if they are still online at the end of the test.
98 It is no longer necessary to set TEST_XFS_SCRUB.
99 - setenv LOGWRITES_DEV to a block device to use for power fail
101 - setenv PERF_CONFIGNAME to a arbitrary string to be used for
102 identifying the test setup for running perf tests. This should
103 be different for each type of performance test you wish to run so
104 that relevant results are compared. For example 'spinningrust'
105 for configurations that use spinning disks and 'nvme' for tests
107 - set USE_KMEMLEAK=yes to scan for memory leaks in the kernel
108 after every test, if the kernel supports kmemleak.
109 - set KEEP_DMESG=yes to keep dmesg log after test
110 - Set TEST_FS_MODULE_RELOAD=1 to unload the module and reload
111 it between test invocations. This assumes that the name of
112 the module is the same as FSTYP.
113 - Set DUMP_CORRUPT_FS=1 to record metadata dumps of XFS or ext*
114 filesystems if a filesystem check fails.
115 - Set DUMP_COMPRESSOR to a compression program to compress
116 metadumps of filesystems. This program must accept '-f' and the
117 name of a file to compress; and it must accept '-d -f -k' and
118 the name of a file to decompress. In other words, it must
121 - or add a case to the switch in common/config assigning
122 these variables based on the hostname of your test
124 - or add these variables to a file called local.config and keep that
125 file in your workarea.
127 - if testing xfsdump, make sure the tape devices have a
128 tape which can be overwritten.
130 - make sure $TEST_DEV is a mounted XFS partition
131 - make sure that $SCRATCH_DEV or $SCRATCH_DEV_POOL contains nothing useful
136 - By default the tests suite will run all the tests in the auto group. These
137 are the tests that are expected to function correctly as regression tests,
138 and it excludes tests that exercise conditions known to cause machine
139 failures (i.e. the "dangerous" tests).
140 - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
142 - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
143 See the 'group' file for details on groups
144 - If you want to run all tests regardless of what group they are in
145 (including dangerous tests), use the "all" group: ./check -g all
146 - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
147 - You can explicitly specify NFS/CIFS/OVERLAY, otherwise
148 the filesystem type will be autodetected from $TEST_DEV:
149 - for running nfs tests: ./check -nfs [test(s)]
150 - for running cifs/smb3 tests: ./check -cifs [test(s)]
151 - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)]
152 The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted
153 with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created
156 The check script tests the return value of each script, and
157 compares the output against the expected output. If the output
158 is not as expected, a diff will be output and an .out.bad file
159 will be produced for the failing test.
161 Unexpected console messages, crashes and hangs may be considered
162 to be failures but are not necessarily detected by the QA system.
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165 ADDING TO THE FSQA SUITE
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169 Creating new tests scripts:
171 Use the "new" script.
173 Test script environment:
175 When developing a new test script keep the following things in
176 mind. All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
177 available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
180 1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory. If you want to
181 do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do
182 one of the following:
184 (a) Create directories and files at will in the directory
185 $TEST_DIR ... this is within an XFS filesystem and world
186 writeable. You should cleanup when your test is done,
187 e.g. use a _cleanup shell procedure in the trap ... see
188 001 for an example. If you need to know, the $TEST_DIR
189 directory is within the filesystem on the block device
192 (b) mkfs a new XFS filesystem on $SCRATCH_DEV, and mount this
193 on $SCRATCH_MNT. Call the the _require_scratch function
194 on startup if you require use of the scratch partition.
195 _require_scratch does some checks on $SCRATCH_DEV &
196 $SCRATCH_MNT and makes sure they're unmounted. You should
197 cleanup when your test is done, and in particular unmount
199 Tests can make use of $SCRATCH_LOGDEV and $SCRATCH_RTDEV
200 for testing external log and realtime volumes - however,
201 these tests need to simply "pass" (e.g. cat $seq.out; exit
202 - or default to an internal log) in the common case where
203 these variables are not set.
205 2. You can safely create temporary files that are not part of the
206 filesystem tests (e.g. to catch output, prepare lists of things
207 to do, etc.) in files named $tmp.<anything>. The standard test
208 script framework created by "new" will initialize $tmp and
211 3. By default, tests are run as the same uid as the person
212 executing the control script "check" that runs the test scripts.
214 4. Some other useful shell procedures:
216 _get_fqdn - echo the host's fully qualified
219 _get_pids_by_name - one argument is a process name, and
220 return all of the matching pids on
223 _within_tolerance - fancy numerical "close enough is good
224 enough" filter for deterministic
225 output ... see comments in
226 common/filter for an explanation
228 _filter_date - turn ctime(3) format dates into the
229 string DATE for deterministic
232 _cat_passwd, - dump the content of the password
233 _cat_group or group file (both the local file
234 and the content of the NIS database
235 if it is likely to be present)
237 5. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.:
238 - When the content of the password or group file is
239 required, get it using the _cat_passwd and _cat_group
240 functions, to ensure NIS information is included if NIS
242 - When calling getfacl in a test, pass the "-n" argument so
243 that numeric rather than symbolic identifiers are used in
245 - When creating a new test, it is possible to enter a custom name
246 for the file. Filenames are in form NNN-custom-name, where NNN
247 is automatically added by the ./new script as an unique ID,
248 and "custom-name" is the optional string entered into a prompt
249 in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
250 and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
254 Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated
255 verified output, e.g. 007.out.
257 It is important that the verified output is deterministic, and
258 part of the job of the test script is to filter the output to
259 make this so. Examples of the sort of things that need filtering:
266 - variable directory contents
267 - imprecise numbers, especially sizes and times
271 The script "check" may be used to run one or more tests.
273 Test number $seq is deemed to "pass" when:
274 (a) no "core" file is created,
275 (b) the file $seq.notrun is not created,
276 (c) the exit status is 0, and
277 (d) the output matches the verified output.
279 In the "not run" case (b), the $seq.notrun file should contain a
280 short one-line summary of why the test was not run. The standard
281 output is not checked, so this can be used for a more verbose
282 explanation and to provide feedback when the QA test is run
286 To force a non-zero exit status use:
292 won't have the desired effect because of the way the exit trap
295 The recent pass/fail history is maintained in the file "check.log".
296 The elapsed time for the most recent pass for each test is kept
299 The compare-failures script in tools/ may be used to compare failures
300 across multiple runs, given files containing stdout from those runs.
306 Send patches to the fstests mailing list at fstests@vger.kernel.org.