What is Kirk?

Kirk application is a fork of runltp-ng and it aims to merge multiple Linux testing frameworks in one tool, providing support for remote testing via Qemu, SSH, LTX, parallel execution and much more.

Host information

        System: Linux
        Node: susy
        Kernel Release: 5.14.21-150400.24.60-default
        Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 12 12:13:32 UTC 2023 (93dbe2e)
        Machine Architecture: x86_64
        Processor: x86_64

        Temporary directory: /tmp/kirk.acer/tmpz49sip95

Connecting to SUT: host
Starting suite: math
abs01: pass | tainted  (0.001s)
atof01: pass | tainted  (0.002s)
float_bessel: pass | tainted  (0.673s)
float_exp_log: pass | tainted  (0.667s)
float_iperb: pass | tainted  (0.252s)
float_power: pass | tainted  (0.562s)
float_trigo: pass | tainted  (0.646s)
fptest01: pass | tainted  (0.002s)
fptest02: pass | tainted  (0.003s)
nextafter01: pass | tainted  (0.002s)

Suite Name: math
Total Run: 10
Elapsed Time: 3.039s
Passed Tests: 22
Failed Tests: 0
Skipped Tests: 0
Broken Tests: 0
Warnings: 0
Kernel Version: Linux 5.14.21-150400.24.60-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 12 12:13:32 UTC 2023 (93dbe2e)
CPU: x86_64
Machine Architecture: x86_64
RAM: 15569424 kB
Swap memory: 2095424 kB
Distro: opensuse-leap
Distro Version: 15.4


Disconnecting from SUT: host

Quickstart

The tool works out of the box by running kirk script. Minimum python requirement is 3.6+ and optional dependences are the following:

• asyncssh for SSH support
• msgpack for LTX support

kirk will detect if dependences are installed and activate the corresponding support. If no dependences are provided by the OS's package manager, virtualenv can be used to install them:

# download source code
git clone git@github.com:acerv/kirk.git
cd kirk

# create your virtual environment (python-3.6+)
virtualenv .venv

# activate virtualenv
source .venv/bin/activate

# SSH support
pip install asyncssh

# LTX support
pip install msgpack

# run kirk
./kirk --help

Some basic commands are the following:

# run LTP syscalls testing suite on host
./kirk --framework ltp --run-suite syscalls

# run LTP syscalls testing suite on qemu VM
./kirk --framework ltp \
    --sut qemu:image=folder/image.qcow2:user=root:password=root \
    --run-suite syscalls

# run LTP syscalls testing suite via SSH
./kirk --framework ltp \
    --sut ssh:host=myhost.com:user=root:key_file=myhost_id_rsa \
    --run-suite syscalls

# run LTP syscalls testing suite in parallel on host using 16 workers
./kirk --framework ltp --run-suite syscalls --workers 16

# run LTP syscalls testing suite in parallel via SSH using 16 workers
./kirk --framework ltp \
    --sut ssh:host=myhost.com:user=root:key_file=myhost_id_rsa \
    --run-suite syscalls --workers 16

It's possible to run a single command before running testing suites using --run-command option as following:

./kirk --framework ltp \
    --run-command /mnt/setup.sh \
    --sut qemu:image=folder/image.qcow2:virtfs=/home/user/tests:user=root:password=root \
    --run-suite syscalls

Every session has a temporary directory that can be found in /<TMPDIR>/kirk.<username>. Inside this folder there's a symlink called latest, pointing to the latest session's temporary directory.

In certain cases, kirk sessions can be restored. This can be really helpful when we need to restore the last session after a system crash:

# restore the latest session
./kirk --framework ltp \
    --restore /tmp/kirk.<username>/latest \
    --run-suite syscalls

Setting up console for Qemu

To enable console on a tty device for a VM do:

• open /etc/default/grub
• add console=$tty_name, console=tty0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
• run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Where $tty_name should be ttyS0, unless virtio serial type is used (i.e. if you set the serial=virtio backend option, then use hvc0)

Implementing SUT

Sometimes we need to cover complex testing scenarios, where the SUT uses particular protocols and infrastructures, in order to communicate with our host machine and to execute tests binaries.

For this reason, kirk provides a plugin system to recognize custom SUT class implementations inside the libkirk folder. Please check host.py or ssh.py implementations for more details.

Once a new SUT class is implemented and placed inside the libkirk folder, kirk -s help command can be used to see if application correctly recognise it.

Implementing Framework

Every testing framework has it's own setup, defining tests folders, data and variables. For this reason, Framework class provides a generic API that, once implemented, permits to define a specific testing framework. The class implementation must be included inside the libkirk folder and it will be used as an abstraction layer between kirk scheduler and the specific testing framework.

Development

The application is validated using pytest and pylint. To run unittests:

pytest

To run linting checks:

pylint --rcfile=pylint.ini ./libkirk