The Linux Test project ltp-20061121 Released

Michael Reed writes “The Linux Test Project test suite has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2900+ tests for the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as:

• A Linux test tools matrix
• Technical papers
• How To’s on Linux testing
• Code coverage analysis tool.

We encourage the community to post results to ltp-results@lists.sf.net,
and patches, new tests, or comments/questions to ltp-list@lists.sf.net

Release Highlights:
Code Cleanups by Darrick Wong, Mike Frysinger, Jacky Malcles, Jane Lv
Michael Reed

See ChangeLog Below

• Removed an invalid errno value check.
• Fixed the setting of LTPROOT for the bin directory, not just the
• descend into timers subdir when cleaning
• This patch amends pounder to build kernel 2.6.18 instead of 2.6.15.
• dynamically calculate TST_TOTAL rather than hardcoding it
  . shmctl01.c, shmctl02.c, shmctl03.c
• Fix from Jane Lv to move large arrays off the stack and into global
• This patch makes the pounder control program handle SIGHUP by killing children
• The readme file has been updated for nfs
• Disable this test case for kernels below 2.6.17 and not 2.6.16.
  vmsplice01.c
• This is a patch that allows pounder to record the contents of sysfs when it
  starts, thus enabling us to take a better snapshot of the system state when
  pounder starts. It also adds “lspci” into the PCI Device Tree heading per
  user request.
  get_hw_info
• Since 2.6.17, _syscall* isn’t exported into the user space any more, so all
  the test cases using _syscall* will fail to be compiled This patch
  remove _syscall5 from llseek.c and convert to syscall provided by libc.It
  also includes some cleanups and makes the build cleaner and removes the
  warning for
  scsimain.c, llseek.c, scsimain.c
• Backed out the “fix” in Bug 1592647, b/c I don’t think the testcase is
  actually broken.
  diotest4.c
• touchup code a little to make the expected behavior of test4 more obvious
  setrlimit01.c
• The random syscall generator has a bug on x86-64 where it only generates
  random bits for the upper 32 bits of the syscall argument, and then truncates
  the upper 32 bits anyway! This patch replaces the rand() weirdness with a
  function that generates N bytes of random data instead. It also adds a -z
  flag in case one *wants* the zero-arguments behavior; Max Asbock and Russ
  Weight requested it because zero is a quick way to find kernel code paths
  that don’t check userland pointers.
  CHANGELOG, randasys.c, random_syscall
• Applied fix for Bugs item #1592647
  . diotest4.c
• A patch by Jacky Malcles (The IA-64 architecture sets SHMLBA to 1MB and) The
  value of the pointer address passed to shmat being set in such a way that
  rounding down to the nearest multiple of SHMLBA results above the current
  heap. shmt09.c
• Made a change to a comment above the change for 1.11 mc_cmds
• Disabling the ping test for now. The test can pass without this additional
  check and can cause failures on some distros.
  mc_commo

• A patch by Suzuki Kp, that removed the definition of HZ from user space for
  Bug # 28023.
  adjtimex02.c

• Comment out set -x to remove debug output
  nfsstat01

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