Re: No care given to GDB scripts..

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 11/29/2023 5:02 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:23:55 -0800 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Is there any way of scripting the scripts so we can have some sort of
>>> automated testing down under tools/testing/selftests/?
>>
>> That might be a bit difficult to do as this would mean that we can self
>> debug and introspect using gdb the live kernel. Testing using QEMU is
>> definitively doable however. Of course, I just found another script that
>> broke (device.py)!
> 
> Oh.  That sounds quite the exercise in the context of tools/selftests.
> 
> One can of course just fire up gdb against the vmlinux elf file and
> play around, but I assume this won't permit a useful amount of the
> scripts to be exercised.
> 
> Suppose someone has set up qemu or whatever and has attached gdb to it.
> Could we provide that person with a script or a canned set of commands
> which exercise the gdb scripts to a useful extent?  So rather than
> attempting automated testing under the seltests umbrella, we provide
> less skilled individuals with the means to easily and quickly check for
> regressions.  I'd expect that such a toolset would be particularly
> helpful for regression testing the scripts across all the supported
> architectures?

Yes it would, let me play with what GDB and QEMU can do and see if this 
can be somewhat automated.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian