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-This document is the reference manual for the LLVM test suite. It documents -the structure of the LLVM test suite, the tools needed to use it, and how to add -and run tests.
+This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It +documents the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to +use it, and how to add and run tests.
In order to use the LLVM test suite, you will need all of the software -required to build LLVM, plus the following:
+In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the +software required to build LLVM, as well +as Python 2.4 or later.
-The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests: +regression tests and whole programs. The regression tests are contained inside +the LLVM repository itself under llvm/test and are expected to always +pass -- they should be run before every commit. The whole programs tests are +referred to as the "LLVM test suite" and are in the test-suite module +in subversion. +
+ +The regression tests are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of +LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually written in LLVM +assembly language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a +particular language front end (and the appropriate --with-llvmgcc +options were used at configure time of the llvm module). These +tests are driven by the 'lit' testing tool, which is part of LLVM.
+ +These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated +from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.
+ +These code fragment tests are located in the llvm/test +directory.
+ +Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing +just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed +somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small +piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual +application or benchmark.
+ +The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of +code which can be compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be +executed. These programs are generally written in high level languages such as +C or C++, but sometimes they are written straight in LLVM assembly.
+ +These programs are compiled and then executed using several different +methods (native compiler, LLVM C backend, LLVM JIT, LLVM native code generation, +etc). The output of these programs is compared to ensure that LLVM is compiling +the program correctly.
+ +In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as +a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the +programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and +generates code.
-Darwin (Mac OS X) developers can simplify the installation of Expect and tcl -by using fink. fink install expect will install both. Alternatively, -Darwinports users can use sudo port install expect to install Expect -and tcl.
+The test-suite is located in the test-suite Subversion module.
+ +The test suite contains tests to check quality of debugging information. +The test are written in C based languages or in LLVM assembly language.
+ +These tests are compiled and run under a debugger. The debugger output +is checked to validate of debugging information. See README.txt in the +test suite for more information . This test suite is located in the +debuginfo-tests Subversion module.
The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The basic feature - and regression tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory - llvm/test. A more comprehensive test suite that includes whole -programs in C and C++ is in the test-suite module. This module should -be checked out to the llvm/projects directory as llvm-test (for -historical purpose). When you configure the llvm module, -the llvm-test directory will be automatically configured. +
The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The regressions + tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory + llvm/test (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm tree). + The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole +programs in C and C++ is in the test-suite module. This module should +be checked out to the llvm/projects directory (don't use another name +than the default "test-suite", for then the test suite will be run every time +you run make in the main llvm directory). +When you configure the llvm module, +the test-suite directory will be automatically configured. Alternatively, you can configure the test-suite module manually.
-To run all of the simple tests in LLVM using DejaGNU, use the master Makefile - in the llvm/test directory:
+ + + + +To run all of the LLVM regression tests, use master Makefile in + the llvm/test directory:
@@ -131,109 +198,130 @@ Alternatively, you can configure the test-suite module manually.
To run only a subdirectory of tests in llvm/test using DejaGNU (ie. -Regression/Transforms), just set the TESTSUITE variable to the path of the -subdirectory (relative to llvm/test):
+If you have Clang checked out and built, +you can run the LLVM and Clang tests simultaneously using:
+ +or
-% gmake -C llvm/test TESTSUITE=Regression/Transforms +% gmake check-all
Note: If you are running the tests with objdir != subdir, you -must have run the complete testsuite before you can specify a -subdirectory.
+To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append +VG=1 to the commands above, e.g.:
-To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole -programs), run the llvm-test tests:
++% gmake check VG=1 ++
To run individual tests or subsets of tests, you can use the 'llvm-lit' +script which is built as part of LLVM. For example, to run the +'Integer/BitCast.ll' test by itself you can run:
-% cd llvm/projects -% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk llvm-test -% cd .. -% ./configure --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR -% cd projects/llvm-test -% gmake +% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/Integer/BitCast.ll
or to run all of the ARM CodeGen tests:
+ ++% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM +
For more information on using the 'lit' tool, see 'llvm-lit --help' or the +'lit' man page.
-The LLVM test suite contains two major categories of tests: code -fragments and whole programs. Code fragments are in the llvm module -under the llvm/test directory. The whole programs -test suite is in the llvm-test module under the main directory.
+To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole +programs), first checkout and setup the test-suite module:
++% cd llvm/projects +% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite +% cd .. +% ./configure --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR +
where $LLVM_GCC_DIR is the directory where +you installed llvm-gcc, not its src or obj +dir. The --with-llvmgccdir option assumes that +the llvm-gcc-4.2 module was configured with +--program-prefix=llvm-, and therefore that the C and C++ +compiler drivers are called llvm-gcc and llvm-g++ +respectively. If this is not the case, +use --with-llvmgcc/--with-llvmgxx to specify each +executable's location.
-Then, run the entire test suite by running make in the test-suite +directory:
-Code fragments are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of LLVM -or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually written in LLVM assembly -language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a particular -language front end.
++% cd projects/test-suite +% gmake ++
Code fragments are not complete programs, and they are never executed to -determine correct behavior.
+Usually, running the "nightly" set of tests is a good idea, and you can also +let it generate a report by running:
-These code fragment tests are located in the llvm/test/Features and -llvm/test/Regression directories.
++% cd projects/test-suite +% gmake TEST=nightly report report.html ++
Any of the above commands can also be run in a subdirectory of +projects/test-suite to run the specified test only on the programs in +that subdirectory.
Whole Programs are pieces of code which can be compiled and linked into a -stand-alone program that can be executed. These programs are generally written -in high level languages such as C or C++, but sometimes they are written -straight in LLVM assembly.
- -These programs are compiled and then executed using several different -methods (native compiler, LLVM C backend, LLVM JIT, LLVM native code generation, -etc). The output of these programs is compared to ensure that LLVM is compiling -the program correctly.
+To run debugging information tests simply checkout the tests inside +clang/test directory.
-In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as -a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the -programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and -generates code.
++%cd clang/test +% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/debuginfo-tests/trunk debuginfo-tests ++
All "whole program" tests are located in the test-suite Subversion -module.
+These tests are already set up to run as part of clang regression tests.
The LLVM regression tests are driven by 'lit' and are located in + the llvm/test directory. -
Each type of test in the LLVM test suite has its own directory. The major -subtrees of the test suite directory tree are as follows:
- -This directory contains a large array of small tests that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:
+Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing - just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed - somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small - piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual - application or benchmark.
- -The test-suite module contains programs that can be compiled -with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler -and various LLVM backends. The output from the program compiled with the -native compiler is assumed correct; the results from the other programs are -compared to the native program output and pass if they match.
- -In addition for testing correctness, the llvm-test directory also -performs timing tests of various LLVM optimizations. It also records -compilation times for the compilers and the JIT. This information can be -used to compare the effectiveness of LLVM's optimizations and code -generation.
The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single -source file in size. These are usually small benchmark programs or small -programs that calculate a particular value. Several such programs are grouped -together in each directory.
The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire -programs with multiple source files. Large benchmarks and whole applications -go here.
The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external -to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM. The most prominent members of this -directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The presence and -location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test -configure script.
The LLVM test suite is partially driven by DejaGNU and partially driven by - GNU Make. Specifically, the Features and Regression tests are all driven by - DejaGNU. The llvm-test module is currently driven by a set of - Makefiles.
- -The DejaGNU structure is very simple, but does require some information to - be set. This information is gathered via configure and is written - to a file, site.exp in llvm/test. The llvm/test - Makefile does this work for you.
- -In order for DejaGNU to work, each directory of tests must have a - dg.exp file. DejaGNU looks for this file to determine how to run the - tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want, but - we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. It simply loads a Tcl - library (test/lib/llvm.exp) and calls the llvm_runtests - function defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names - are obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only +
The regression test structure is very simple, but does require some + information to be set. This information is gathered via configure and + is written to a file, lit.site.cfg + in llvm/test. The llvm/test Makefile does this work for + you.
+ +In order for the regression tests to work, each directory of tests must + have a dg.exp file. Lit looks for this file to determine how to + run the tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want, + but we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a + directory of tests, just copy dg.exp from another directory to get + running. The standard dg.exp simply loads a Tcl library + (test/lib/llvm.exp) and calls the llvm_runtests function + defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names are + obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only directories does not need the dg.exp file.
The llvm-runtests function lookas at each file that is passed to @@ -327,12 +376,17 @@ location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.
+lit performs substitution on each RUN line to replace LLVM tool + names with the full paths to the executable built for each tool (in + $(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT)/$(BuildMode)/bin). This ensures that lit does not + invoke any stray LLVM tools in the user's path during testing.
+Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless its last character is \. This continuation character causes the RUN line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in \ are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in \ is - found. This concatenated set or RUN lines then constitutes one execution. + found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution. Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
@@ -367,7 +421,8 @@ location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-testThere are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any - ' or " so they will get passed to the invoked program. For example:
+ quote characters so they will get passed to the invoked program. For + example:@@ -429,10 +484,264 @@ location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test
If your system includes GNU grep, make sure +that GREP_OPTIONS is not set in your environment. Otherwise, +you may get invalid results (both false positives and false +negatives).
+A powerful feature of the RUN: lines is that it allows any arbitrary commands + to be executed as part of the test harness. While standard (portable) unix + tools like 'grep' work fine on run lines, as you see above, there are a lot + of caveats due to interaction with Tcl syntax, and we want to make sure the + run lines are portable to a wide range of systems. Another major problem is + that grep is not very good at checking to verify that the output of a tools + contains a series of different output in a specific order. The FileCheck + tool was designed to help with these problems.
+ +FileCheck (whose basic command line arguments are described in the FileCheck man page is + designed to read a file to check from standard input, and the set of things + to verify from a file specified as a command line argument. A simple example + of using FileCheck from a RUN line looks like this:
+ ++; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=x86-64 | FileCheck %s ++
This syntax says to pipe the current file ("%s") into llvm-as, pipe that into +llc, then pipe the output of llc into FileCheck. This means that FileCheck will +be verifying its standard input (the llc output) against the filename argument +specified (the original .ll file specified by "%s"). To see how this works, +lets look at the rest of the .ll file (after the RUN line):
+ ++define void @sub1(i32* %p, i32 %v) { +entry: +; CHECK: sub1: +; CHECK: subl + %0 = tail call i32 @llvm.atomic.load.sub.i32.p0i32(i32* %p, i32 %v) + ret void +} + +define void @inc4(i64* %p) { +entry: +; CHECK: inc4: +; CHECK: incq + %0 = tail call i64 @llvm.atomic.load.add.i64.p0i64(i64* %p, i64 1) + ret void +} ++
Here you can see some "CHECK:" lines specified in comments. Now you can see +how the file is piped into llvm-as, then llc, and the machine code output is +what we are verifying. FileCheck checks the machine code output to verify that +it matches what the "CHECK:" lines specify.
+ +The syntax of the CHECK: lines is very simple: they are fixed strings that +must occur in order. FileCheck defaults to ignoring horizontal whitespace +differences (e.g. a space is allowed to match a tab) but otherwise, the contents +of the CHECK: line is required to match some thing in the test file exactly.
+ +One nice thing about FileCheck (compared to grep) is that it allows merging +test cases together into logical groups. For example, because the test above +is checking for the "sub1:" and "inc4:" labels, it will not match unless there +is a "subl" in between those labels. If it existed somewhere else in the file, +that would not count: "grep subl" matches if subl exists anywhere in the +file.
+ +The FileCheck -check-prefix option allows multiple test configurations to be +driven from one .ll file. This is useful in many circumstances, for example, +testing different architectural variants with llc. Here's a simple example:
+ ++; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=i686-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \ +; RUN: | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X32 +; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \ +; RUN: | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X64 + +define <4 x i32> @pinsrd_1(i32 %s, <4 x i32> %tmp) nounwind { + %tmp1 = insertelement <4 x i32> %tmp, i32 %s, i32 1 + ret <4 x i32> %tmp1 +; X32: pinsrd_1: +; X32: pinsrd $1, 4(%esp), %xmm0 + +; X64: pinsrd_1: +; X64: pinsrd $1, %edi, %xmm0 +} ++
In this case, we're testing that we get the expected code generation with +both 32-bit and 64-bit code generation.
+ +Sometimes you want to match lines and would like to verify that matches +happen on exactly consequtive lines with no other lines in between them. In +this case, you can use CHECK: and CHECK-NEXT: directives to specify this. If +you specified a custom check prefix, just use "<PREFIX>-NEXT:". For +example, something like this works as you'd expect:
+ ++define void @t2(<2 x double>* %r, <2 x double>* %A, double %B) { + %tmp3 = load <2 x double>* %A, align 16 + %tmp7 = insertelement <2 x double> undef, double %B, i32 0 + %tmp9 = shufflevector <2 x double> %tmp3, + <2 x double> %tmp7, + <2 x i32> < i32 0, i32 2 > + store <2 x double> %tmp9, <2 x double>* %r, align 16 + ret void + +; CHECK: t2: +; CHECK: movl 8(%esp), %eax +; CHECK-NEXT: movapd (%eax), %xmm0 +; CHECK-NEXT: movhpd 12(%esp), %xmm0 +; CHECK-NEXT: movl 4(%esp), %eax +; CHECK-NEXT: movapd %xmm0, (%eax) +; CHECK-NEXT: ret +} ++
CHECK-NEXT: directives reject the input unless there is exactly one newline +between it an the previous directive. A CHECK-NEXT cannot be the first +directive in a file.
+ +The CHECK-NOT: directive is used to verify that a string doesn't occur +between two matches (or the first match and the beginning of the file). For +example, to verify that a load is removed by a transformation, a test like this +can be used:
+ ++define i8 @coerce_offset0(i32 %V, i32* %P) { + store i32 %V, i32* %P + + %P2 = bitcast i32* %P to i8* + %P3 = getelementptr i8* %P2, i32 2 + + %A = load i8* %P3 + ret i8 %A +; CHECK: @coerce_offset0 +; CHECK-NOT: load +; CHECK: ret i8 +} ++
The CHECK: and CHECK-NOT: directives both take a pattern to match. For most +uses of FileCheck, fixed string matching is perfectly sufficient. For some +things, a more flexible form of matching is desired. To support this, FileCheck +allows you to specify regular expressions in matching strings, surrounded by +double braces: {{yourregex}}. Because we want to use fixed string +matching for a majority of what we do, FileCheck has been designed to support +mixing and matching fixed string matching with regular expressions. This allows +you to write things like this:
+ ++; CHECK: movhpd {{[0-9]+}}(%esp), {{%xmm[0-7]}} ++
In this case, any offset from the ESP register will be allowed, and any xmm +register will be allowed.
+ +Because regular expressions are enclosed with double braces, they are +visually distinct, and you don't need to use escape characters within the double +braces like you would in C. In the rare case that you want to match double +braces explicitly from the input, you can use something ugly like +{{[{][{]}} as your pattern.
+ +It is often useful to match a pattern and then verify that it occurs again +later in the file. For codegen tests, this can be useful to allow any register, +but verify that that register is used consistently later. To do this, FileCheck +allows named variables to be defined and substituted into patterns. Here is a +simple example:
+ ++; CHECK: test5: +; CHECK: notw [[REGISTER:%[a-z]+]] +; CHECK: andw {{.*}}[[REGISTER]] ++
The first check line matches a regex (%[a-z]+) and captures it into +the variables "REGISTER". The second line verifies that whatever is in REGISTER +occurs later in the file after an "andw". FileCheck variable references are +always contained in [[ ]] pairs, are named, and their names can be +formed with the regex "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*". If a colon follows the +name, then it is a definition of the variable, if not, it is a use.
+ +FileCheck variables can be defined multiple times, and uses always get the +latest value. Note that variables are all read at the start of a "CHECK" line +and are all defined at the end. This means that if you have something like +"CHECK: [[XYZ:.*]]x[[XYZ]]" that the check line will read the previous +value of the XYZ variable and define a new one after the match is performed. If +you need to do something like this you can probably take advantage of the fact +that FileCheck is not actually line-oriented when it matches, this allows you to +define two separate CHECK lines that match on the same line. +
+ +With a RUN line there are a number of substitutions that are permitted. In general, any Tcl variable that is available in the substitute @@ -485,14 +794,6 @@ location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test
To make RUN line writing easier, there are several shell scripts located - in the llvm/test/Scripts directory. For example:
+ in the llvm/test/Scripts directory. This directory is in the PATH + when running tests, so you can just call these scripts using their name. For + example:Sometimes it is necessary to mark a test case as "expected fail" or XFAIL. - You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including XFAIL: on a + You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including XFAIL: on a line near the top of the file. This signals that the test case should succeed - if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by DejaGnu. To + if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by the testing tool. To specify an expected fail, use the XFAIL keyword in the comments of the test program followed by a colon and one or more regular expressions (separated by - a comma). The regular expressions allow you to XFAIL the test conditionally - by host platform. The regular expressions following the : are matched against - the target triplet or llvmgcc version number for the host machine. If there is - a match, the test is expected to fail. If not, the test is expected to - succeed. To XFAIL everywhere just specify XFAIL: *. When matching - the llvm-gcc version, you can specify the major (e.g. 3) or full version - (i.e. 3.4) number. Here is an example of an XFAIL line:
+ a comma). The regular expressions allow you to XFAIL the test conditionally by + host platform. The regular expressions following the : are matched against the + target triplet for the host machine. If there is a match, the test is expected + to fail. If not, the test is expected to succeed. To XFAIL everywhere just + specify XFAIL: *. Here is an example of an XFAIL line:-; XFAIL: darwin,sun,llvmgcc4 +; XFAIL: darwin,sun
To make the output more useful, the llvm_runtest function wil scan the lines of the test case for ones that contain a pattern that matches PR[0-9]+. This is the syntax for specifying a PR (Problem Report) number that - is related to the test case. The numer after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla + is related to the test case. The number after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla number. When a PR number is specified, it will be used in the pass/fail reporting. This is useful to quickly get some context when a test fails.
@@ -597,66 +893,76 @@ location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-testAs mentioned previously, the llvm-test module provides three types -of tests: MultiSource, SingleSource, and External. Each tree is then subdivided -into several categories, including applications, benchmarks, regression tests, -code that is strange grammatically, etc. These organizations should be -relatively self explanatory.
+The test-suite module contains a number of programs that can be compiled +with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler +and various LLVM backends. The output from the program compiled with the +native compiler is assumed correct; the results from the other programs are +compared to the native program output and pass if they match.
-In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the llvm-test -module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways. -If the variable TEST is defined on the gmake command line, the test system will -include a Makefile named TEST.<value of TEST variable>.Makefile. -This Makefile can modify build rules to yield different results.
+When executing tests, it is usually a good idea to start out with a subset of +the available tests or programs. This makes test run times smaller at first and +later on this is useful to investigate individual test failures. To run some +test only on a subset of programs, simply change directory to the programs you +want tested and run gmake there. Alternatively, you can run a different +test using the TEST variable to change what tests or run on the +selected programs (see below for more info).
-For example, the LLVM nightly tester uses TEST.nightly.Makefile to -create the nightly test reports. To run the nightly tests, run gmake -TEST=nightly.
+In addition for testing correctness, the test-suite directory also +performs timing tests of various LLVM optimizations. It also records +compilation times for the compilers and the JIT. This information can be +used to compare the effectiveness of LLVM's optimizations and code +generation.
-There are several TEST Makefiles available in the tree. Some of them are -designed for internal LLVM research and will not work outside of the LLVM -research group. They may still be valuable, however, as a guide to writing your -own TEST Makefile for any optimization or analysis passes that you develop with -LLVM.
+test-suite tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource, +SingleSource, and External.
+ +The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single +source file in size. These are usually small benchmark programs or small +programs that calculate a particular value. Several such programs are grouped +together in each directory.
The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire +programs with multiple source files. Large benchmarks and whole applications +go here.
The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external +to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM. The most prominent members of this +directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The External +directory does not contain these actual tests, but only the Makefiles that know +how to properly compile these programs from somewhere else. The presence and +location of these external programs is configured by the test-suite +configure script.
Each tree is then subdivided into several categories, including applications, +benchmarks, regression tests, code that is strange grammatically, etc. These +organizations should be relatively self explanatory.
+ +Some tests are known to fail. Some are bugs that we have not fixed yet; +others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add). In the +regression tests, the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure). +In this way, you can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected +failure.
+ +The tests in the test suite have no such feature at this time. If the +test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If +a test fails, a large <program> FAILED message will be displayed. This +will help you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.
-Note, when configuring the llvm-test module, you might want to -specify the following configuration options:
-- -
- -
The master Makefile in llvm/test is capable of running only the -DejaGNU driven tests. By default, it will run all of these tests.
- -To run only the DejaGNU driven tests, run gmake at the -command line in llvm/test. To run a specific directory of tests, use -the TESTSUITE variable. -
- -For example, to run the Regression tests, type -gmake TESTSUITE=Regression in llvm/tests.
- -Note that there are no Makefiles in llvm/test/Features and -llvm/test/Regression. You must use DejaGNU from the llvm/test -directory to run them.
- -To run the llvm-test suite, you need to use the following steps:
+To run the test suite, you need to use the following steps:
Check out the test-suite module with:
-% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk llvm-test +% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
This will get the test suite into llvm/projects/test-suite.
+Configure and build llvm.
Configure and build llvm-gcc.
Install llvm-gcc somewhere.
Re-configure llvm from the top level of + each build tree (LLVM object directory tree) in which you want + to run the test suite, just as you do before building LLVM.
+During the re-configuration, you must either: (1) + have llvm-gcc you just built in your path, or (2) + specify the directory where your just-built llvm-gcc is + installed using --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR.
+You must also tell the configure machinery that the test suite + is available so it can be configured for your build tree:
++% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure [--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR] ++
[Remember that $LLVM_GCC_DIR is the directory where you + installed llvm-gcc, not its src or obj directory.]
+This will get the test suite into llvm/projects/llvm-test
- -Configure the test suite using llvm configure. This will automatically configure llvm-test. - You must do it from the top level otherwise llvm-gcc will not be set which is required to - run llvm-test.:
+You can now run the test suite from your build tree as follows:
-% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR +% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/projects/test-suite +% make
Note that the second and third steps only need to be done once. After you have the suite checked out and configured, you don't need to do it again (unless -the test code or configure script changes). $LLVM_GCC_DIR is the path to the LLVM -C/C++ FrontEnd
- -To make a specialized test (use one of the -llvm-test/TEST.<type>.Makefiles), just run:
+the test code or configure script changes). --% gmake TEST=<type> test -
For example, you could run the nightly tester tests using the following -commands:
+ + + --% cd llvm/projects/llvm-test -% gmake TEST=nightly test -+
In order to run the External tests in the test-suite + module, you must specify --with-externals. This + must be done during the re-configuration step (see above), + and the llvm re-configuration must recognize the + previously-built llvm-gcc. If any of these is missing or + neglected, the External tests won't work.
+Regardless of which test you're running, the results are printed on standard -output and standard error. You can redirect these results to a file if you -choose.
+ + + +In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the test-suite +module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways. +If the variable TEST is defined on the gmake command line, the test system will +include a Makefile named TEST.<value of TEST variable>.Makefile. +This Makefile can modify build rules to yield different results.
-Some tests are known to fail. Some are bugs that we have not fixed yet; -others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add). In DejaGNU, -the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure). In this way, you -can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected failure.
+For example, the LLVM nightly tester uses TEST.nightly.Makefile to +create the nightly test reports. To run the nightly tests, run gmake +TEST=nightly.
-The tests in llvm-test have no such feature at this time. If the -test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If -a test fails, a large <program> FAILED message will be displayed. This -will help you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.
+There are several TEST Makefiles available in the tree. Some of them are +designed for internal LLVM research and will not work outside of the LLVM +research group. They may still be valuable, however, as a guide to writing your +own TEST Makefile for any optimization or analysis passes that you develop with +LLVM.
There are a number of ways to run the tests and generate output. The most + simple one is simply running gmake with no arguments. This will + compile and run all programs in the tree using a number of different methods + and compare results. Any failures are reported in the output, but are likely + drowned in the other output. Passes are not reported explicitely.
+ +Somewhat better is running gmake TEST=sometest test, which runs + the specified test and usually adds per-program summaries to the output + (depending on which sometest you use). For example, the nightly test + explicitely outputs TEST-PASS or TEST-FAIL for every test after each program. + Though these lines are still drowned in the output, it's easy to grep the + output logs in the Output directories.
+ +Even better are the report and report.format targets + (where format is one of html, csv, text or + graphs). The exact contents of the report are dependent on which + TEST you are running, but the text results are always shown at the + end of the run and the results are always stored in the + report.<type>.format file (when running with + TEST=<type>). + + The report also generate a file called + report.<type>.raw.out containing the output of the entire test + run. +
Assuming you can run llvm-test, (e.g. "gmake TEST=nightly report" +
Assuming you can run the test suite, (e.g. "gmake TEST=nightly report" should work), it is really easy to run optimizations or code generator components against every program in the tree, collecting statistics or running custom checks for correctness. At base, this is how the nightly tester works, @@ -764,11 +1127,11 @@ many times it triggers. First thing you should do is add an LLVM will tally counts of things you care about.
Following this, you can set up a test and a report that collects these and -formats them for easy viewing. This consists of two files, an -"llvm-test/TEST.XXX.Makefile" fragment (where XXX is the name of your -test) and an "llvm-test/TEST.XXX.report" file that indicates how to +formats them for easy viewing. This consists of two files, a +"test-suite/TEST.XXX.Makefile" fragment (where XXX is the name of your +test) and a "test-suite/TEST.XXX.report" file that indicates how to format the output into a table. There are many example reports of various -levels of sophistication included with llvm-test, and the framework is very +levels of sophistication included with the test suite, and the framework is very general.
If you are interested in testing an optimization pass, check out the @@ -776,7 +1139,7 @@ general.
-% cd llvm/projects/llvm-test/MultiSource/Benchmarks # or some other level +% cd llvm/projects/test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks # or some other level % make TEST=libcalls report
The source for this is in llvm-test/TEST.libcalls.*. The format is pretty +
The source for this is in test-suite/TEST.libcalls.*. The format is pretty simple: the Makefile indicates how to run the test (in this case, "opt -simplify-libcalls -stats"), and the report contains one line for each column of the output. The first value is the header for the column and the @@ -816,78 +1179,17 @@ example reports that can do fancy stuff.
-The LLVM Nightly Testers -automatically check out an LLVM tree, build it, run the "nightly" -program test (described above), run all of the feature and regression tests, -delete the checked out tree, and then submit the results to -http://llvm.org/nightlytest/. -After test results are submitted to -http://llvm.org/nightlytest/, -they are processed and displayed on the tests page. An email to - -llvm-testresults@cs.uiuc.edu summarizing the results is also generated. -This testing scheme is designed to ensure that programs don't break as well -as keep track of LLVM's progress over time.
- -If you'd like to set up an instance of the nightly tester to run on your -machine, take a look at the comments at the top of the -utils/NewNightlyTest.pl file. If you decide to set up a nightly tester -please choose a unique nickname and invoke utils/NewNightlyTest.pl -with the "-nickname [yournickname]" command line option. - -
You can create a shell script to encapsulate the running of the script. -The optimized x86 Linux nightly test is run from just such a script:
- --#!/bin/bash -BASE=/proj/work/llvm/nightlytest -export BUILDDIR=$BASE/build -export WEBDIR=$BASE/testresults -export LLVMGCCDIR=/proj/work/llvm/cfrontend/install -export PATH=/proj/install/bin:$LLVMGCCDIR/bin:$PATH -export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proj/install/lib -cd $BASE -cp /proj/work/llvm/llvm/utils/NewNightlyTest.pl . -nice ./NewNightlyTest.pl -nice -release -verbose -parallel -enable-linscan \ - -nickname NightlyTester -noexternals > output.log 2>&1 --
It is also possible to specify the the location your nightly test results -are submitted. You can do this by passing the command line option -"-submit-server [server_address]" and "-submit-script [script_on_server]" to -utils/NewNightlyTest.pl. For example, to submit to the llvm.org -nightly test results page, you would invoke the nightly test script with -"-submit-server llvm.org -submit-script /nightlytest/NightlyTestAccept.cgi". -If these options are not specified, the nightly test script sends the results -to the llvm.org nightly test results page.
- -Take a look at the NewNightlyTest.pl file to see what all of the -flags and strings do. If you start running the nightly tests, please let us -know. Thanks!
- -