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2016-07-15test/py: Provide a way to get early console outputSimon Glass
Some tests want to check the console output from SPL or U-Boot proper. Provide a means to do this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-07-08test/py: strip VT100 codes from match bufferStephen Warren
Prior to this patch, any VT100 codes emitted by U-Boot are considered part of a command's output, which often causes tests to fail. For example, test_env_echo_exists executes printenv, and then considers any text on a line before an = sign as a valid U-Boot environment variable name. This includes any VT100 codes emitted. When the test later attempts to use that variable, the name would be invalid since it includes the VT100 codes. Solve this by stripping VT100 codes from the match buffer, so they are never seen by higher level test code. The codes are still logged unmodified, so that users can expect U-Boot's exact output without interference. This does clutter the log file a bit. However, it allows users to see exactly what U-Boot emitted rather than a modified version, which hopefully is better for debugging. It's also much simpler to implement, since logging happens as soon as text is received, and so stripping the VT100 codes from the log would require handling reception and stripping of partial VT100 codes. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2016-02-15test/py: handle exceptions in console creationStephen Warren
u_boot_console.exec_attach.get_spawn() performs two steps: 1) Spawn a process to communicate with the serial console. 2) Reset the board so that U-Boot starts running from scratch. Currently, if an exception happens in step (2), no cleanup is performed on the process created in step (1). That process stays running and may e.g. hold serial port locks, or simply continue to read data from the serial port, thus preventing it from reaching any other process that attempts to read from the same serial port later. While there is error cleanup code in u_boot_console_base.ensure_spawned(), this is not triggered since the exception prevents assignment to self.p there, and hence the exception handler has no object to operate upon in cleanup_spawn(). Solve this by enhancing u_boot_console.exec_attach.get_spawn() to clean up any objects it has created. In theory, u_boot_spawn.Spawn's constructor has a similar issue, so fix this too. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-02-09test/py: fix off-by-one error in spawn matching codeStephen Warren
A regex match object's .end() value is already the index after the match, not the index of the last character in the match, so there's no need to add 1 to point past the match. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2016-02-08test/py: support running sandbox under gdbserverStephen Warren
Implement command--line option --gdbserver COMM, which does two things: a) Run the sandbox process under gdbserver, using COMM as gdbserver's communication channel. b) Disables all timeouts, so that if U-Boot is halted under the debugger, tests don't fail. If the user gives up in the middle of a debugging session, they can simply CTRL-C the test script to abort it. This allows easy debugging of test failures without having to manually re-create the failure conditions. Usage is: Window 1: ./test/py/test.py --bd sandbox --gdbserver localhost:1234 Window 2: gdb ./build-sandbox/u-boot -ex 'target remote localhost:1234' When using this option, it likely makes sense to use pytest's -k option to limit the set of tests that are executed. Simply running U-Boot directly under gdb (rather than gdbserver) was also considered. However, this was rejected because: a) gdb's output would then be processed by the test script, and likely confuse it causing false failures. b) pytest by default hides stdout from tests, which would prevent the user from interacting with gdb. While gdb can be told to redirect the debugee's stdio to a separate PTY, this would appear to leave gdb's stdio directed at the test scripts and the debugee's stdio directed elsewhere, which is the opposite of the desired effect. Perhaps some complicated PTY muxing and process hierarchy could invert this. However, the current scheme is simple to implement and use, so it doesn't seem worth complicating matters. c) Using gdbserver allows arbitrary debuggers to be used, even those with a GUI. If the test scripts invoked the debugger themselves, they'd have to know how to execute arbitary applications. While the user could hide this all in a wrapper script, this feels like extra complication. An interesting future idea might be a --gdb-screen option, which could spawn both U-Boot and gdb separately, and spawn the screen into a newly created window under screen. Similar options could be envisaged for creating a new xterm/... too. --gdbserver currently only supports sandbox, and not real hardware. That's primarily because the test hooks are responsible for all aspects of hardware control, so there's nothing for the test scripts themselves can do to enable gdbserver on real hardware. We might consider introducing a separate --disable-timeouts option to support use of debuggers on real hardware, and having --gdbserver imply that option. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2016-01-29test/py: run sandbox in source directoryStephen Warren
Some unit tests expect the cwd of the sandbox process to be the root of the source tree. Ensure that requirement is met. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-29test/py: fix spawn.expect multiple match handlingStephen Warren
Multiple patterns may be passed to spawn.expect(). The pattern which matches at the earliest position should be designated as the match. This aspect works correctly. When multiple patterns match at the same position, priority should be given the the earliest entry in the list of patterns. This aspect does not work correctly. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-29test/py: use " for docstringsStephen Warren
Python's coding style docs indicate to use " not ' for docstrings. test/py has other violations of the coding style docs, since the docs specify a stranger style than I would expect, but nobody has complained about those yet:-) Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-29test/py: fix timeout to be absoluteStephen Warren
Currently, Spawn.expect() imposes its timeout solely upon receipt of new data, not on its overall operation. In theory, this could cause the timeout not to fire if U-Boot continually generated output that did not match the expected patterns. Fix the code to additionally impose a timeout on overall operation, which is the intended mode of operation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-21test/py: Implement pytest infrastructureStephen Warren
This tool aims to test U-Boot by executing U-Boot shell commands using the console interface. A single top-level script exists to execute or attach to the U-Boot console, run the entire script of tests against it, and summarize the results. Advantages of this approach are: - Testing is performed in the same way a user or script would interact with U-Boot; there can be no disconnect. - There is no need to write or embed test-related code into U-Boot itself. It is asserted that writing test-related code in Python is simpler and more flexible that writing it all in C. - It is reasonably simple to interact with U-Boot in this way. A few simple tests are provided as examples. Soon, we should convert as many as possible of the other tests in test/* and test/cmd_ut.c too. The hook scripts, relay control utilities, and udev rules I use for my own HW setup are published at https://github.com/swarren/uboot-test-hooks. See README.md for more details! Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> #v3