libctdb: test infrastructure
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:42:40 +0000 (14:12 +0930)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:42:40 +0000 (14:12 +0930)
commit4c0f3dcffefa8a527dad01ba054523c515b03caa
tree10e7bff6b6910bd027bbbaac9711e33d02ce2eab
parentcfe0edc0b992acec42a620fdbc09a034d7f91d91
libctdb: test infrastructure

This introduces 'ctdb-test', a program for testing libctdb.  It takes
commands on standard input (with reduced functionality) or an input file.

It still needs some cleaning up, but you can uncover a bug in libctdb
today simply by running a simple attachdb test:

$ ctdb-test tests/attachdb1.txt

It will print out a crash, and the path of successful and failed
operations which lead to it:

...
Child signalled 11 on failure path: [malloc]:1:S[socket]:1:S[connect]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:4:S[malloc]:4:F

Feed that failure path into ctdb-test using --failpath (under a debugger):

gdb --args ctdb-test tests/attachdb1.txt --failpath=[malloc]:1:S[socket]:1:S[connect]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:1:S[malloc]:4:S[malloc]:4:F

And you hit the exact error.

It is based on the fork-to-fail model of nfsim.  The relevant parts are
from page 154 of the proceedings of 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium Volume II:
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf

Or our presentation of same (from slide 21):
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/nfsim/nfsim.sxi

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
(This used to be ctdb commit b4aab4199a57898877b6545a54f212087ed4b35a)
22 files changed:
ctdb/libctdb/test/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/attachdb.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/ctdb-test.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/ctdb-test.h [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/expect.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/expect.h [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/failtest.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/failtest.h [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/log.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/log.h [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tests/attachdb1.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tests/connect1.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tests/connect2.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/create-links [new file with mode: 0755]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/extract-help [new file with mode: 0755]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/gen-help [new file with mode: 0755]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/gen-usage [new file with mode: 0755]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/text.xsl [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tools/usage.xsl [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tui.c [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/tui.h [new file with mode: 0644]
ctdb/libctdb/test/utils.h [new file with mode: 0644]