acpica/tests/aslts/bin

Utilities to manage the test suite
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Do utility

This is the test suite command dispatcher. It allows the user to
compile/install the AML tests, run them, and compare results of runs.
The output log of tests and results of processing the test logs are
saved in the aslts/tmp/RESULTS automatically generated directory.

Run Do without parameters to print out its Usage.

The simplest sequence of actions to deal with the test suite
is shown in the example below.


   1. Create the following environment variables:

      ASL      - pathname of iASL compiler
      acpiexec - pathname of AcpiExec utility
      ASLTSDIR - pathname of root directory of aslts test suite

   2. Add the following directory to the PATH variable:

        aslts/bin

      If necessary, convert all scripts in the aslts/bin directory to unix
      line endings:

        > d2u aslts/bin/*

   3. To configure the required/desired set of test cases and the modes of
      the execution runs, manually edit the settings file:

        aslts/bin/settings

   4. Usage message:

        > cd aslts/bin
        > Do

        The utility prints out the usage message.

   5. Compile and install all AML test cases:

        > Do 0 aslts

        This command will compile and install all of the AML test cases
        under the tmp directory:

            aslts/tmp/aml

   6. Run all configured test cases in all modes:

        > Do 1

        This command will run all the specified test cases in the specified
        modes. The possible modes are:

            32-bit normal mode (AML interpreter slack mode disabled)
            64-bit normal mode
            32-bit slack mode (AML interpreter slack mode enabled)
            64-bit slack mode

   7. Examine the results:

        a) See the summary file for test execution information:

            aslts/tmp/RESULTS/<date.time.acpica_version>/Summary

        b) Compare the obtained multi-result with the previous benchmark
           multi-result for to catch regressions (the 'Do 2' command below).

   8. Compare the results to previous test executions:

        > Do 2

        This command will compare the current test execution with the
        previous one. Also used for comparing any two particular
        multi-results.

        > Do 2 <first multi-result directory> <second multi-result directory>

        The <first multi-result directory> contains the results from one of
        test suite executions. The <second multi-result directory> contains
        the results of a previous test suite execution.

        The 'Do 2' command will compare the results of both test suite
        executions and report any differences/regressions.

        The result directories are contained in aslts/tmp/RESULTS, and
        have names of the form: <date.time.acpica_version>

        Example:

        > cd aslts
        > Do 2 tmp/RESULTS/20090325.151601.20090320 tmp/RESULTS/20090325.150744.20090320


Do 2 output:
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1. Summary information related to a particular test case:

   echo "|$2|$cnt|$pass|$fail|$skip|$start|$finish|$total|$outstand0|$blck|$memtotal|$max0|$max1|$max2|$max3|$max4|$max5|$out0|$out1|$out2|$out3|$out4|$out5|$outstand1|$LargeRefCount|$memtotalbytes|$exceptionsnum|" >> "$3"

outstand0 - Outstanding allocations of the particular test case
            Example from arithmetic test case log:

                Outstanding: 0x11 allocations after execution

outstand1 - Outstanding allocations of the particular test case
            Example from reference test case log:

                ACPI Error (uttrack-0719): 39(27) Outstanding allocations [20090320]

memtotal  - Total memory in bytes consumed during execution of the
            particular test case
start     - Time when test case started
finish    - Time when test case finished
total     - Duration of test case execution


2. Summary information related to all test cases that have been run for a
   particular test mode (32-bit normal, etc..):

   echo "|TOTAL|$outstand0|$memtotal|${MODES_TIMES[$2]}|$outstand1|$LargeRefCount|$memtotalbytes|"  >> "$path"

totaloutstand00 - Summary of outstand0 of all test cases
totalmem0       - Summary of memtotal of all test cases
totaltime0      - All the test cases execution duration
totaloutstand01 - Summary of outstand1 of all test cases