On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:41 +0800, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:18 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 01:55 +0800, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > > Hi Huang Ying,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:25 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > > > Hi Huang Ying,
> > > > 
> > > > >On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 10:56 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > > > >Hi, All,
> > > > > 
> > > > > We are working on a test suite to test the Linux kernel MCE handling
> > > > > logic named mce-test, which can be find at:
> > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git. There is a
> > > > > HOWTO for it, which is attached with the mail.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We think the testing target of mce-test is part of that of LTP, so it 
> > > > > is
> > > > > better to integrate mce-test into LTP. Do you think so?
> > > > > 
> > > > > As for integration scheme, maybe we can first add mce-test into LTP 
> > > > > as a
> > > > > separate test case, just as kdump test case. What's your opinions?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any comment is welcome!
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry for the very late response to your proposal. Please find below the
> > > > first patch which will integrate the existing mce-test to LTP. I had 
> > > > just
> > > > done a sanity checking of building it. The following patch will still 
> > > > need:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) Exclusive testing and sharing those results with the LTP community,
> > > 
> > > My initial first tests results are:
> > > 
> > > # uname -a
> > > Linux x206f 2.6.29-gcov #1 SMP Fri Jun 19 12:14:27 IST 2009 i686 i686
> > > i386 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > mce-test needs at least Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc? and some additional
> > injection related patches from:
> > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/yhuang/mce/. We are
> > working on pushing these additional patches into 2.6.32.
> > 
> 
> Can you please then provide this information inside mce-test/README, so
> that users are exactly aware of:
> 
>      1. Which kernel to pick up, 
>      2. Which additional patches to apply, 
>      3. Which config options to set,
> 
> before building and running these tests.

I have add these information into the HOWTO in mce-test/doc/howto.txt.
In README, there is a "pointer" to howto.txt in section test
instruction. Is it OK for you?

> Once mainline stable releases are through, you can then again update
> mce-test/README with similar information.

OK. I will update the document after upstream merging.

> I would like people to start doing some testing with your present
> mce-test as well. As suggested by Andi, please drop in:
> 
>      1. a minimal patch which adds the tests(you want) to LTP, 
>      2. update mce-test/README in the same patch with all the above
>         info, 
>      3. attach test results against the patches you have dropped to ltp,

OK. I will do this.

I will check the coding style with checkpatch.pl. Do you have other
comments about the code?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying



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