| Following is the Tentative plan for improving LTP-KDUMP Test-cases: |
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| ||S.NO|| ACTIVITY || TENTATIVE-TIME || |
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| || 1 || Enhance result analysis code of Link Delay || JAN 2008 || |
| || || and dump filtering || || |
| || 2 || Develop failure recovery code for failures which || JAN 2008 || |
| || || could be identified and fixed || || |
| || 3 || Enhance ltp kdump to support kdump testing || DEC 2007 || |
| || || on open suse and fedora || || |
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| Proposed upcoming work from Cai Qian <qcai@redhat.com>: |
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| Here is my first draft plan of Kexec/Kdump tests enhancement sorted by |
| priorities. I would like to add them as many as possible. |
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| == filtered vmcore utilities == |
| - in different compressed levels, verify the vmcore with the correct |
| layout. |
| - verify it in flat file or ELF formats from a network host. |
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| == analyse vmcore utilities == |
| - GDB |
| - crash with better error detecting. |
| - crash to analyse Hypervisor and Dom0 Kernel. |
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| == test scripts == |
| - timestamp information for crash was triggered, vmcore was generated, |
| and vmcore was verified. |
| - aim to 100% automation, and reduce manual setup. |
| - tidy up scripts. |
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| == crash scenarios == |
| - SDINT switch for ia64 if possible. |
| - Hypervisor crash for Virtualization. |
| - crashes on full- and para-virt guests. |
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| == fix bugs in existing tests == |
| - printk LKDTM module can hang the second Kernel. |
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| == kdump configurations and init script == |
| - capture vmcore after init runs. |
| - rpm pre- and post-scripts |
| - kdump_pre and kdump_post directives |
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| == increase coverages for new kexec/kdump development efforts == |
| - new reserved region syntax in Kernel. |