Like many prngs, xorshift breaks down when the internal state is 0. The
common fix is to explicitly check for this and replace with a 1 when
this happens (usually when seeding, in this API we have to check every
update, this is less efficient but I don't think we really care).
As a slight tweak, this now checks for 0 but replaces it with -1. This
makes seed=0 different from seed=1, which is nice when using
seed=range(0,n) in tests/benches.
The original name was a bit of a mouthful.
Also dropped the default crystal_size in the test/bench runners
block_size/4 -> block_size/8. I'm already noticing large amounts of
inflation when blocks are fragmented, though I am experimenting with a
rather small fragment_size right now.
Future benchmarks/experimentation is required to figure out good values
for these.
The attempt to implement in-rbyd data slicing, being lazily coalesced
during rbyd compaction, failed pretty much completely.
Slicing is a very enticing write strategy, getting both minimal overhead
post-compaction and fast random write speeds, but the idea has some
fundamental conflicts with how we play out attrs post-compaction.
This idea might work in a more powerful filesystem, but brings back the
need to simulate rbyds in RAM, which is something I really don't want to
do (complex, bug-prone, likely adds code cost, may not even be tractable).
So, third time's the charm?
---
This new write strategy writes only datas and bptrs, and avoids dagging
by completely rewriting any regions of data larger than a configurable
crystallization threshold.
This loses most of the benefits of data crystallization, random writes
will now usually need to rewrite a full block, but as a tradeoff our
data at rest is always stored with optimal overhead.
And at least data crystallization still saves space when our data isn't
block aligned, or in sparse files. From reading up on some other
filesystem designs it seems this is a desirable optimization sometimes
referred to as "tail-packing" or "block suballocation"
Some other changes from just having more time to think about the
problem:
1. Instead of scanning to figure out our current crystal size, we can
use a simple heuristic of 1. look up left block, 2. look up right
block, 3. assume any data between these blocks contribute to our
current crystal.
This is just a heuristic, so worst case you write the first and last
byte of a block which is enough to trigger compaction into a block.
But on the plus side this avoids issues with small holes preventing
blocks from being formed.
This approach brings the number of btree lookups down from
O(crystallize_size) to 2.
2. I've gone ahead and dropped the previous scheme of coalesce_size
+ fragment_size and instead adopted a single fragment_size that
controls the size of, well, fragments, i.e. data elements stored
directly in trees.
This affects both the inlined shrub as well as fragments stored in
the inner nodes of the btree. I believe it's very similar to what is
often called "pages" in logging filesystems, though I'm going to
avoid that term for now because it's a bit overloaded.
Previously, neighboring writes that, when combined, would exceed our
coalesce_size, they just weren't combined. Now they are combined up
to our fragment size, potentially splitting the right fragment.
Before (fragment_size=8):
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 8 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
+
.---+---+---+---+---.
| 5 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---'
=
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 5 bytes | 5 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
After:
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 8 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
+
.---+---+---+---+---.
| 5 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---'
=
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 8 bytes |2 bytes|
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
This leads to better fragment alignment (much like our block
strategy), and minimizes tree overhead.
Any neighboring data to the right is only coalesced if it fits in the
current fragment, or would be rewritten (carved) anyways, to avoid
unnecessary data rewriting.
For example (fragment_size=8):
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 6 bytes | 6 bytes |2 bytes|
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
+
.---+---+---+---+---.
| 5 bytes |
'---+---+---+---+---'
=
.---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---.
| 8 bytes | 4 bytes |2 bytes|
'---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---'
Other than these changes this commit is mostly a bunch of carveshrub
rewriting again, which continues to be nuanced and annoying to get
bug free.
So now instead of needing:
./scripts/test.py ./runners/test_runner test_dtree
You can just do:
./scripts/test.py test_dtree
Or with an explicit path:
./scripts/test.py -R./runners/test_runner test_dtree
This makes it easier to run the script manually. And, while there may be
some hiccups with the implicit relative path, I think in general this will
make the test/bench scripts easier to use.
There was already an implicit runner path, though only if the test suite
was completely omitted. I'm not sure that would ever have actually
been useful...
---
Also increased the permutation field size in --list-*, since I noticed it
was overflowing.
This turned out to have limited use for the tests themselves. I was
hoping to avoid the mount->format->mount fallback when powerloss
testing, but we still need it in case format was interrupted.
Still, TEST_PLS is very useful for debugging.
Previouly it was difficult to set a breakpoint at a specific location,
and after a specific powerloss event. Now all you need is this in gdb:
b <line> if test_pls == <pls>
- coalesce_size - The amount of data allowed to coalesce into single
data entries.
- crystallize_size - How much data is allowed to be written to btree
inner nodes before needing to be compacted into a block.
Also deduplicated the test config is something I've been wanting to do
for a while. It doesn't make sense to need to modify several different
instantiations of lfs_config every time a config option is added or
removed...
This will stop being a problem when we actually have btrees, but for now
the fragmentation caused by byte-level syncs was easily enough to
overflow an mdir when cache size is big.
A smaller cache size is also nicer for debugging, since smaller cache
sizes results in data getting flushed to disk earlier, which is easier
to inspect than in-device buffers. And a 16-byte cache still provides
decent test coverage over cache interactions.
---
Also dropped inline_size to block_size/8. I realized while debugging
that opened shrubs take up additional space until we sync, so we need to
expect up to 2 temporary copies of shrubs when writing files.
Currently limited to inlined files and only simpler truncate-writes.
But still this lets us test file creation/deletion.
This is also enough logic to make it clear that, even though we have
some powerful high-level primitives, mapping file operations onto these
is still going to be non-trivial.
The previous system of relying on test name prefixes for ordering was
simple, but organizing tests by dependencies and topologically sorting
during compilation is 1. more flexible and 2. simplifies test names,
which get typed a lot.
Note these are not "hard" dependencies, each test suite should work fine
in isolation. These "after" dependencies just hint an ordering when all
tests are ran.
As such, it's worth noting the tests should NOT error of a dependency is
missing. This unfortunately makes it a bit hard to catch typos, but
allows faster compilation of a subset of tests.
---
To make this work the way tests are linked has changed from using custom
linker section (fun linker magic!) to a weakly linked array appended to
every source file (also fun linker magic!).
At least with this method test.py has strict control over the test
ordering, and doesn't depend on 1. the order in which the linker merges
sections, and 2. the order tests are passed to test.py. I didn't realize
the previous system was so fragile.
To help with this, added TEST_PL, which is set to true when powerloss
testing. This way tests can check for stronger conditions (no EEXIST)
when not powerloss testing.
With TEST_PL, there's really no reason every test in t5_dirs shouldn't
be reentrant, and this gives us a huge improvement of test coverage very
cheaply.
---
The increased test coverage caught a bug, which is that gstate wasn't
being consumed properly when mtree uninlining. Humorously, this went
unnoticed because the most common form of mtree uninlining, mdir splitting,
ended up incorrectly consuming the gstate twice, which canceled itself
out since the consume operation is basically just xor.
Also added support for printing dstarts to dbglfs.py, to help debugging.
This marks internal tests/benches (case.in="lfs.c") with an otherwise-unused
flag that is printed during --summary/--list-*. This just helps identify which
tests/benches are internal.
TEST_PERMUTATION/BENCH_PERMUTATION make it possible to map an integer to
a specific permutation efficiently. This is helpful since our testing
framework really only parameterizes single integers.
The exact implementation took a bit of trial and error. It's based on
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7919887 and
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24257996, but modified to run in O(n) with
no extra memory. In the discussion it seemed like this may not actually
be possible for lexicographic ordering of permutations, but fortunately
we don't care about the specific ordering, only the reproducibility.
Here's how it works:
1. First populate an array with all numbers 0-n.
2. Iterate through each index, selecting only from the remaining
numbers based on our current permutation.
.- i%rem --.
v .----+----.
[p0 p1 |-> r0 r1 r2 r3]
Normally to maintain lexicographic ordering you should have to do a O(n)
shift at this step as you remove each number. But instead we can just swap
the removed number and number under the index. This effectively
shrinks the remaining part of the array, but permutes the numbers
a bit. Fortunately, since each successive permutation swaps
at the same location, the resulting permutations will be both
exhaustive and reproducible, if unintuitive.
Now permutation/fuzz tests can reproduce specific failures by defining
either -DPERMUTATION=x or -DSEED=x.
I wondered if walking in Python 2's footsteps was going to run into the
same issues and sure enough, memory backed iterators became unweildy.
The motivation for this change is that large ranges in tests, such as
iterators over seeds or permutations, became prohibitively expensive to
compile. This meant more iteration moving into tests with more steps to
reproduce failures. This sort of defeats the purpuse of the test
framework.
The solution here is to move test permutation generation out of test.py
and into the test runner itself. The allows defines to generate their
values programmatically.
This does conflict with the test frameworks support of sets of explicit
permutations, but this is fixed by also moving these "permutation sets"
down into the test runner.
I guess it turns out the closer your representation matches your
implementation the better everythign works.
Additionally the define caching layer got a bit of tweaking. We can't
precalculate the defines because of mutual recursion, but we can
precalculate which define/permutation each define id maps to. This is
necessary as otherwise figuring out each define's define-specific
permutation would be prohibitively expensive.
This turned out to be a bit tricky, and the scheme in bench_rbyd is
broken.
The core issue is that we don't have a distinction between physical and
logical block sizes, so we can't use a block device configured for one
geometry with a littlefs instance operating on a different geometry. For
this and other reasons we should probably have two configuration
variables in the future, but at the moment that is out of scope.
The problem with the approach in bench_rbyd, which changes the
lfs_config at runtime, is that this breaks emubd which also depends on
lfs_config due to a leaky abstraction. This causes unnoticed memory
corruption.
---
To get something working, the tests now change the underlying BLOCK_SIZE
test define before the tests are run. This starts the test with a block
device configured with a large block_size. To keep this from breaking
things the geometry definitions in the test and bench runners no longer
use default dependent definitions, instead defining everything
explicitly.
With block_size being so large, this makes some of the emubd operations
less performant, notably the --disk option for exposing block device
state during testing.
It would also be nice to use the copy-on-write backend of emubd for some
of the permutation testing, but since it operates on a block-by-block
basis, it doesn't really work when the block device is just one big
block.
- Added support for negative numbers in the leb16 encoding with an
optional 'w' prefix.
- Changed prettyasserts.py rule to .a.c => .c, allowing other .a.c files
in the future.
- Updated .gitignore with missing generated files (tags, .csv).
- Removed suite-namespacing of test symbols, these are no longer needed.
- Changed test define overrides to have higher priority than explicit
defines encoded in test ids. So:
./runners/bench_runner bench_dir_open:0f1g12gg2b8c8dgg4e0 -DREAD_SIZE=16
Behaves as expected.
Otherwise it's not easy to experiment with known failing test cases.
- Fixed issue where the -b flag ignored explicit test/bench ids.
When you add a function to every benchmark suite, you know if should
probably be provided by the benchmark runner itself. That being said,
randomness in tests/benchmarks is a bit tricky because it needs to be
strictly controlled and reproducible.
No global state is used, allowing tests/benches to maintain multiple
randomness stream which can be useful for checking results during a run.
There's an argument for having global prng state in that the prng could
be preserved across power-loss, but I have yet to see a use for this,
and it would add a significant requirement to any future test/bench runner.
The linear powerloss heuristic provides very good powerloss coverage
without a significant runtime hit, so there's really no reason to run
the tests without -Plinear.
Previous behavior can be accomplished with an explicit -Pnone.
Two flags introduced: -fcallgraph-info=su for stack analysis, and
-ftrack-macro-expansions=0 for cleaner prettyassert.py warnings, are
unfortunately not supported in Clang.
The override vars in the Makefile meant it wasn't actually possible to
remove these flags for Clang testing, so this commit changes those vars
to normal, non-overriding vars. This means `make CFLAGS=-Werror` and
`CFLAGS=-Werror make` behave _very_ differently, but this is just an
unfortunate quirk of make that needs to be worked around.
- Moved to Ubuntu 22.04
This notably means we no longer have to bend over backwards to
install GCC 10!
- Changed shell in gha to include the verbose/undefined flags, making
debugging gha a bit less painful
- Adopted the new test.py/test_runners framework, which means no more
heavy recompilation for different configurations. This reduces the test job
runtime from >1 hour to ~15 minutes, while increasing the number of
geometries we are testing.
- Added exhaustive powerloss testing, because of time constraints this
is at most 1pls for general tests, 2pls for a subset of useful tests.
- Limited coverage measurements to `make test`
Originally I tried to maximize coverage numbers by including coverage
from every possible source, including the more elaborate CI jobs which
provide an extra level of fuzzing.
But this missed the purpose of coverage measurements, which is to find
areas where test cases can be improved. We don't want to improve coverage
by just shoving more fuzz tests into CI, we want to improve coverage by
adding specific, intentioned test cases, that, if they fail, highlight
the reason for the failure.
With this perspective, maximizing coverage measurement in CI is
counter-productive. This changes makes it so the reported coverage is
always less than actual CI coverage, but acts as a more useful metric.
This also simplifies coverage collection, so that's an extra plus.
- Added benchmarks to CI
Note this doesn't suffer from inconsistent CPU performance because our
benchmarks are based on purely simulated read/prog/erase measurements.
- Updated the generated markdown table to include line+branch coverage
info and benchmark results.
This happens in rare situations where there is a failed mdir relocation,
interrupted by a power-loss, containing the destination of a directory
rename operation, where the directory being renamed preceded the
relocating mdir in the mdir tail-list. This requires at some point for a
previous directory rename to create a cycle.
If this happens, it's possible for the half-orphan to contain the only
reference to the renamed directory. Since half-orphans contain outdated
state when viewed through the mdir tail-list, the renamed directory
appears to be a full-orphan until we fix the relocating half-orphan.
This causes littlefs to incorrectly remove the renamed directory from
the mdir tail-list, causes catastrophic problems down the line.
The source of the problem is that the two different types of orphans
really operate on two different levels of abstraction: half-orphans fix
failed mdir commits, while full-orphans fix directory removes/renames.
Conflating the two leads to situations where we attempt to fix assumed
problems about the directory tree before we have fixed problems with the
mdir state.
The fix here is to separate out the deorphan search into two passes: one
to fix half-orphans and correct any mdir-commits, restoring the mdirs
and gstate to a known good state, then two to fix failed
removes/renames.
---
This was found with the -Plinear heuristic powerloss testing, which now
runs on more geometries. The failing case was:
test_relocations_reentrant_renames:112gg261dk1e3f3:123456789abcdefg1h1i1j1k1
l1m1n1o1p1q1r1s1t1u1v1g2h2i2j2k2l2m2n2o2p2q2r2s2t2
Also fixed/tweaked some parts of the test framework as a part of finding
this bug:
- Fixed off-by-one in exhaustive powerloss state encoding.
- Added --gdb-powerloss-before and --gdb-powerloss-after to help debug
state changes through a failing powerloss, maybe this should be
expanded to any arbitrary powerloss number in the future.
- Added lfs_emubd_crc and lfs_emubd_bdcrc to get block/bd crcs for quick
state comparisons while debugging.
- Fixed bd read/prog/erase counts not being copied during exhaustive
powerloss testing.
- Fixed small typo in lfs_emubd trace.
- Fixed prettyasserts.py parsing when '->' is in expr
- Made prettyasserts.py failures not crash (yay dynamic typing)
- Fixed the initial state of the emubd disk file to match the internal
state in RAM
- Fixed true/false getting changed to True/False in test.py/bench.py
defines
- Fixed accidental substring matching in plot.py's --by comparison
- Fixed a missed LFS_BLOCk_CYCLES in test_superblocks.toml that was
missed
- Changed test.py/bench.py -v to only show commands being run
Including the test output is still possible with test.py -v -O-, making
the implicit inclusion redundant and noisy.
- Added license comments to bench_runner/test_runner
Based loosely on Linux's perf tool, perfbd.py uses trace output with
backtraces to aggregate and show the block device usage of all functions
in a program, propagating block devices operation cost up the backtrace
for each operation.
This combined with --trace-period and --trace-freq for
sampling/filtering trace events allow the bench-runner to very
efficiently record the general cost of block device operations with very
little overhead.
Adopted this as the default side-effect of make bench, replacing
cycle-based performance measurements which are less important for
littlefs.
- Changed multi-field flags to action=append instead of comma-separated.
- Dropped short-names for geometries/powerlosses
- Renamed -Pexponential -> -Plog
- Allowed omitting the 0 for -W0/-H0/-n0 and made -j0 consistent
- Better handling of --xlim/--ylim
Without this redundant permutations can easily happen with runtime
overrides because the different define layers aren't aware of each
other. This causes problems for collecting benchmark results.
These are really just different flavors of test.py and test_runner.c
without support for power-loss testing, but with support for measuring
the cumulative number of bytes read, programmed, and erased.
Note that the existing define parameterization should work perfectly
fine for running benchmarks across various dimensions:
./scripts/bench.py \
runners/bench_runner \
bench_file_read \
-gnor \
-DSIZE='range(0,131072,1024)'
Also added a couple basic benchmarks as a starting point.
The main benefit is small test ids everywhere, though this is with the
downside of needing longer names to properly prefix and avoid
collisions. But this fits into the rest of the scripts with globally
unique names a bit better. This is a C project after all.
The other small benefit is test generators may have an easier time since
per-case symbols can expect to be unique.
This is really more work for the bench runner. With this change defines
can be manipulated at a rather high level at runtime. Which should be
useful for generating benchmarks across various dimensions.
The define grammar in the test_runner is now a bit more powerful,
accepting:
1. A single value: -DN=42
2. A list of values, which get permuted: -DN=1,2,3
3. A range: -DN=range(10)
4. Some combo: -DN=1,2,range(3,0,-1)
This is more complex in the test .toml defines, which can also be C
expressions:
1. A single value: define=42
2. A single expression: define='42*42'
3. A list: define=[1,2,3]
4. A comma separated string: define='1,2,3'
5. A range: define='42*range(10)'
6. This mess: define=[1,2,'3,4,range(2)*range(2)+3']
This is probably how the test runner should have been implemented in the
first place, but it took a few tries to get here.
This makes it so the test identifier, which is a bit longer now, fully
encodes the state of the defines in the test. This removes the need for
the extra geometry field and allows reproduction of tests with custom
defines at runtime.
The test runner may have already seemed like a solved problem, but these
changes are really to enable repurposing the test runner as a bench
runner.
These are just some minor quality of life improvements
- Added a "make build-test" alias
- Made test runner a positional arg for test.py since it is almost
always required. This shortens the command line invocation most of the
time.
- Added --context to test.py
- Renamed --output in test.py to --stdout, note this still merges
stderr. Maybe at some point these should be split, but it's not really
worth it for now.
- Reworked the test_id parsing code a bit.
- Changed the test runner --step to take a range such as -s0,12,2
- Changed tracebd.py --block and --off to take ranges
Previously didn't think this would work without making test.py aware of
the number of implicit defines, which risks being incredibly fragile.
Fortunately it turns out we can defer the actual array size calculation
until the C preprocessor. This simplifies a few things.
Also a bitmap-based caching layer for the defines. Since the test
defines have been upgraded to callbacks recursive defines risk spending
a decent amount of time evaluating on every lookup. Some quick testing
shows 408015154 hits to 46160 misses so that's a good sign.
Also changed the geometries to be their own leb16-encoded part of the
test identifier. This means any geometry can be captured and reproduced
with just the test identifier. Here are the current test geometries:
./runners/test_runner --list-geometries
geometry read prog erase count size leb16
d,default 16 16 512 2048 1048576 g1gg2
e,eeprom 1 1 512 2048 1048576 1gg2
E,emmc 512 512 512 2048 1048576 gg2
n,nor 1 1 4096 256 1048576 1ggg1
N,nand 4096 4096 32768 32 1048576 ggg1ggg8
Based on a handful of local hacky variations, this sort of trace
rendering is surprisingly useful for getting an understanding of how
different filesystem operations interact with the underlying
block-device.
At some point it would probably be good to reimplement this in a
compiled language. Parsing and tracking the trace output quickly
becomes a bottleneck with the amount of trace output the tests
generate.
Note also that since tracebd.py run on trace output, it can also be
used to debug logged block-device operations post-run.
This mostly involved futzing around with some of the less intuitive
parts of Unix's named-pipes behavior.
This is a bit important since the tests can quickly generate several
gigabytes of trace output.
As expected this takes a significant amount of time (~10 minutes for all
1 powerlosses, >10 hours for all 2 powerlosses) but this may be reducible in
the future by optimizing tests for powerloss testing. Currently
test_files does a lot of work that doesn't really have testing value.
These have no real purpose other than slowing down the simulation
for inspection/fun.
Note this did reveal an issue in pretty_asserts.py which was clobbering
feature macros. Added explicit, and maybe a bit hacky, #undef _FEATURE_H
to avoid this.
Before this was available implicitly by supporting both rambd and filebd
as backends, but now that testbd is a bit more complicated and no longer
maps directly to a block-device, this needs to be explicitly supported.
The main change here from the previous test framework design is:
1. Powerloss testing remains in-process, speeding up testing.
2. The state of a test, included all powerlosses, is encoded in the
test id + leb16 encoded powerloss string. This means exhaustive
testing can be run in CI, but then easily reproduced locally with
full debugger support.
For example:
./scripts/test.py test_dirs#reentrant_many_dir#10#1248g1g2 --gdb
Will run the test test_dir, case reentrant_many_dir, permutation #10,
with powerlosses at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 cycles. Dropping into gdb
if an assert fails.
The changes to the block-device are a work-in-progress for a
lazily-allocated/copy-on-write block device that I'm hoping will keep
exhaustive testing relatively low-cost.
This simplifies the interaction between code generation and the
test-runner.
In theory it also reduces compilation dependencies, but internal tests
make this difficult.
This mostly required names for each test case, declarations of
previously-implicit variables since the new test framework is more
conservative with what it declares (the small extra effort to add
declarations is well worth the simplicity and improved readability),
and tweaks to work with not-really-constant defines.
Also renamed test_ -> test, replacing the old ./scripts/test.py,
unfortunately git seems to have had a hard time with this.
- Added --exec for wrapping the test-runner with external commands, such as
Qemu or Valgrind.
- Added --valgrind, which just aliases --exec=valgrind with a few extra
flags useful during testing.
- Dropped the "valgrind" type for tests. These aren't separate tests
that run in the test-runner, and I don't see a need for disabling
Valgrind for any tests. This can be added back later if needed.
- Readded support for dropping directly into gdb after a test failure,
either at the assert failure, entry point of test case, or entry point
of the test runner with --gdb, --gdb-case, or --gdb-main.
- Added --isolate for running each test permutation in its own process,
this is required for associating Valgrind errors with the right test
case.
- Fixed an issue where explicit test identifier conflicted with
per-stage test identifiers generated as a part of --by-suite and
--by-case.
Previously test defines were implemented using layers of index-mapped
uintmax_t arrays. This worked well for lookup, but limited defines to
constants computed at compile-time. Since test defines themselves are
actually calculated at _run-time_ (yeah, they have deviated quite
a bit from the original, compile-time evaluated defines, which makes
the name make less sense), this means defines can't depend on other
defines. Which was limiting since a lot of test defines relied on
defines generated from the geometry being tested.
This new implementation uses callbacks for the per-case defines. This
means they can easily contain full C statements, which can depend on
other test defines. This does means you can create infinitely-recursive
defines, but the test-runner will just break at run-time so don't do that.
One concern is that there might be a performance hit for evaluating all
defines through callbacks, but if there is it is well below the noise
floor:
- constants: 43.55s
- callbacks: 42.05s
- Added internal tests, which can run tests inside other source files,
allowing access to "private" functions and data
Note this required a special bit of handling our defining and later
undefining test configurations to not polute the namespace of the
source file, since it can end up with test cases from different
suites/configuration namespaces.
- Removed unnecessary/unused permutation argument to generated test
functions.
- Some cleanup to progress output of test.py.
- Added --disk/--trace/--output options for information-heavy debugging
- Renamed --skip/--count/--every to --start/--stop/--step.
This matches common terms for ranges, and frees --skip for being used
to skip test cases in the future.
- Better handling of SIGTERM, now all tests are killed, reported as
failures, and testing is halted irregardless of -k.
This is a compromise, you throw away the rest of the tests, which
is normally what -k is for, but prevents annoying-to-terminate
processes when debugging, which is a very interactive process.
In the test-runner, defines are parameterized constants (limited
to integers) that are generated from the test suite tomls resulting
in many permutations of each test.
In order to make this efficient, these defines are implemented as
multi-layered lookup tables, using per-layer/per-scope indirect
mappings. This lets the test-runner and test suites define their
own defines with compile-time indexes independently. It also makes
building of the lookup tables very efficient, since they can be
incrementally populated as we expand the test permutations.
The four current define layers and when we need to build them:
layer defines predefine_map define_map
user-provided overrides per-run per-run per-suite
per-permutation defines per-perm per-case per-perm
per-geometry defines per-perm compile-time -
default defines compile-time compile-time -