From: Steven Rostedt Currently the config_bisect compares the min config with the CONFIG_BISECT config. There may be another config that we know is good that we want to ignore configs on. By passing in this config it will ignore the options that are set in the good config. Note: This only ignores the config, it does not (yet) handle options that are different between the two configs. If the good config has "SLAB" set and the bad config has "SLUB" it will not find the bug if the bug had to do with changing these two options. This is something that I intend to implement in the future. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 6 ++++++ tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf | 19 ++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl index a8e1826..dbc02de 100755 --- a/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ my $bisect_bad = ""; my $reverse_bisect; my $bisect_manual; my $bisect_skip; +my $config_bisect_good; my $in_patchcheck = 0; my $run_test; my $redirect; @@ -1745,6 +1746,10 @@ sub config_bisect { my $tmpconfig = "$tmpdir/use_config"; + if (defined($config_bisect_good)) { + process_config_ignore $config_bisect_good; + } + # Make the file with the bad config and the min config if (defined($minconfig)) { # read the min config for things to ignore @@ -2174,6 +2179,7 @@ for (my $i = 1; $i <= $opt{"NUM_TESTS"}; $i++) { $patchcheck_sleep_time = set_test_option("PATCHCHECK_SLEEP_TIME", $i); $bisect_manual = set_test_option("BISECT_MANUAL", $i); $bisect_skip = set_test_option("BISECT_SKIP", $i); + $config_bisect_good = set_test_option("CONFIG_BISECT_GOOD", $i); $store_failures = set_test_option("STORE_FAILURES", $i); $timeout = set_test_option("TIMEOUT", $i); $booted_timeout = set_test_option("BOOTED_TIMEOUT", $i); diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf b/tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf index c2c072e..be531c2 100644 --- a/tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf +++ b/tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf @@ -749,13 +749,18 @@ # boot - bad builds but fails to boot # test - bad boots but fails a test # -# CONFIG_BISECT is the config that failed to boot -# -# If BISECT_MANUAL is set, it will pause between iterations. -# This is useful to use just ktest.pl just for the config bisect. -# If you set it to build, it will run the bisect and you can -# control what happens in between iterations. It will ask you if -# the test succeeded or not and continue the config bisect. +# CONFIG_BISECT is the config that failed to boot +# +# If BISECT_MANUAL is set, it will pause between iterations. +# This is useful to use just ktest.pl just for the config bisect. +# If you set it to build, it will run the bisect and you can +# control what happens in between iterations. It will ask you if +# the test succeeded or not and continue the config bisect. +# +# CONFIG_BISECT_GOOD (optional) +# If you have a good config to start with, then you +# can specify it with CONFIG_BISECT_GOOD. Otherwise +# the MIN_CONFIG is the base. # # Example: # TEST_START -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/