Linux Test Project

Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux.

The project consists of well over 2000 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.

What is new in this release:

• Numerous PIDNS tests were added.
• CPU Controller Latency tests were added.
• Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) API device driver tests were added.
• Options were added for block devices to runltp.
• ioctl03 and inotify03 tests were added.
• Autoconf is used for some more tests.
• Pounder21 updates were made.
• Ltp network, network stress, adp, autofs, exportfs, ro only fs, isofs, dmmapper, fslvm, fsnolvm, scsi_debug, sysfs, tirpc, and SELinux tests were integrated into runalltests.
• Fixes were made for numerous other tests.

What is new in version 20080831:

• This release adds the setgid16(), ftruncate64(), truncate64(), eventfd(), get_robust_list(), set_robust_list(), sync_file_range(), setfsuid(), setresuid(), setreuid(), setresuid(), eventfd() counter overflow, getcpu(), and setgroups16() syscall tests.
• RO Bind mount test cases has been added.
• There is an IO-Throttle test cases fix, a Hackbench fix, GCOV/LCOV fixes, and an RT tests fix.
• seclvl (BSD Secure Level LSM) tests have been removed.
• There are compiler warning fixes for GCC 4.1 and GCC 4.3 for SLES10SP2 and openSUSE Factory.