Re: Regular testing of SystemTap on various platforms

[Vara Prasad <prasadav at us dot ibm dot com>]

William Cohen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We would like to make sure that SystemTap functions correctly on a 
> variety of architectures and distributions.  There is a simple minded 
> script in the cvs repository tests/tools/stap_testing that downloads 
> the current source code in the cvs repository, compiles it, installs 
> it in a local directory, runs the "make installcheck" tests, and mail 
> test results when the tests complete. It will also generate coverage 
> information about what parts of the translator are execised by the 
> testing. This script needs root permission to run the scripts and 
> needs to be adapted for local conditions, e.g. elfutils source is stored.
>
> Currently, I have this script running regularly on the following system:
>
> -FC5 i686 (pentium m)
> -FC6/rawhide i686 (dual processor piii)
> -FC6/rawhide x86_64 (AMD64)
> -RHEL5 i686 (Athlon)
> -RHEL5 x86-64 (Xeon HT)
>
> The running is just set up as a crontab job 4:30am EDT
>
> 30 04 * * * /home/wcohen/bin/stap_testing wcohen@redhat.com >& 
> /tmp/stap_testing.log
>
> It would be good to have similar testing to make sure that systemtap 
> is running other architectures, e.g. ia64 and powerpc. Other people 
> doing regular runs of the tests. If so, what other architectures and 
> distributions are people running the tests on?
>
> -Will

Hien, used to run these tests weekly once on Monday's on PPC platform 
with that weekends SystemTap snapshot after he left we have not done 
tests in a consistent fashion. We are trying to fill that gap now, i 
will let you know as soon as we find the right person to do this.