Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] xl: test script for the cpumap parser (for vCPU pinning)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 18:52 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dario Faggioli writes ("[PATCH v2 5/5] xl: test script for the cpumap parser 
> (for vCPU pinning)"):
> > This commit introduces "check-xl-vcpupin-parse" for helping
> > verifying and debugging the (v)CPU bitmap parsing code in xl.
> > 
> > The script runs "xl -N vcpu-pin 0 all <some strings>"
> > repeatedly, with various input strings, and checks that the
> > output is as expected.
[...]
> I think it would be better, TBH, if you separated out the test
> generation from the execution.  check-xl-vif-parse et al have the test
> data as an annex to the harness material, but you could have it in a
> separate file which you could have a script to generate.

Support for testing specific strings which have been reported as buggy
in the past would be useful too.



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