[PATCH] ftrace/selftests: Add softlink to latest log directory

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 08 2023 - 18:17:13 EST


From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

When I'm debugging something with the ftrace selftests and need to look at
the logs, it becomes tedious that I need to do the following:

ls -ltr logs
[ copy the last directory ]
ls logs/<paste-last-dir>

to see where the logs are.

Instead, do the common practice of having a "latest" softlink to the last
run selftest. This way after running the selftest I only need to do:

ls logs/latest/

and it will always give me the directory of the last run selftest logs!

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
index cb5f18c06593..7df8baa0f98f 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ parse_opts() { # opts
;;
--logdir|-l)
LOG_DIR=$2
+ LINK_PTR=
shift 2
;;
*.tc)
@@ -181,7 +182,10 @@ fi
TOP_DIR=`absdir $0`
TEST_DIR=$TOP_DIR/test.d
TEST_CASES=`find_testcases $TEST_DIR`
-LOG_DIR=$TOP_DIR/logs/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`/
+LOG_TOP_DIR=$TOP_DIR/logs
+LOG_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
+LOG_DIR=$LOG_TOP_DIR/$LOG_DATE/
+LINK_PTR=$LOG_TOP_DIR/latest
KEEP_LOG=0
KTAP=0
DEBUG=0
@@ -207,6 +211,10 @@ else
LOG_FILE=$LOG_DIR/ftracetest.log
mkdir -p $LOG_DIR || errexit "Failed to make a log directory: $LOG_DIR"
date > $LOG_FILE
+ if [ "x-$LINK_PTR" != "x-" ]; then
+ unlink $LINK_PTR
+ ln -fs $LOG_DATE $LINK_PTR
+ fi
fi

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