Propose the "kvm-xfstests smoke" test suite for changes to the EXT4 FILE SYSTEM subsystem, as discussed previously with maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Kondrashov Nikolai.Kondrashov@redhat.com --- Documentation/process/tests.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/tests.rst b/Documentation/process/tests.rst index 4ae5000e811c8..cfaf937dc4d5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/tests.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/tests.rst @@ -39,3 +39,35 @@ following ones recognized by the tools (regardless of the case): (even if only to report what else needs setting up)
Any other entries are accepted, but not processed. + +xfstests +-------- + +:Summary: file system regression test suite +:Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git +:Docs: https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/what-is-xfst... + +As the name might imply, xfstests is a file system regression test suite which +was originally developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the XFS file system. +Originally, xfstests, like XFS was only supported on the SGI's Irix operating +system. When XFS was ported to Linux, so was xfstests, and now xfstests is +only supported on Linux. + +Today, xfstests is used as a file system regression test suite for all of +Linux's major file systems: xfs, ext2, ext4, cifs, btrfs, f2fs, reiserfs, gfs, +jfs, udf, nfs, and tmpfs. Many file system maintainers will run a full set of +xfstests before sending patches to Linus, and will require that any major +changes be tested using xfstests before they are submitted for integration. + +The easiest way to start running xfstests is under KVM with xfstests-bld: +https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quicksta... + +kvm-xfstests smoke +------------------ + +:Summary: file system smoke test suite +:Superset: xfstests +:Docs: https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quicksta... + +The "kvm-xfstests smoke" is a minimal subset of xfstests for testing all major +file systems, running under KVM. diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 3ed15d8327919..669b5ff571730 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7978,6 +7978,7 @@ L: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained W: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org Q: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/list/ +V: *kvm-xfstests smoke T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git F: Documentation/filesystems/ext4/ F: fs/ext4/