Bug 1263718

Summary: undocumented new options for hwlatdetect and cyclictest
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jiri Kastner <jkastner>
Component: rt-testsAssignee: John Kacur <jkacur>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jiri Kastner <jkastner>
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Version: 7.3CC: bhu
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 7.3   
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: 1263719 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-04 05:13:59 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1263719, 1274397, 1282922, 1313485    
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Update the cyclictest man page
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rt-tests-Update-the-cyclictest-man-page.patch
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Add missing option to hwlatdetect man-page none

Description Jiri Kastner 2015-09-16 13:46:30 UTC
Description of problem:
0.93 version added new options for cyclictest and hwlatdetect, which are not documented in man page.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.93

How reproducible:
always on 0.93

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rt-tests-0.93
2. compare output of 'cyclictest --help' and 'man cyclictest'
3. compare output of 'hwlatdetect --help' and 'man hwlatdetect'

Actual results:
missing '--watch' option for hwlatdetect and '--secaligned' for cyclictest

Expected results:
all options documented

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Kastner 2015-09-16 13:47:12 UTC
############# reproducer ##############
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# zcat /usr/share/man/man8/cyclictest.8.gz | man2html | grep "\-\-numa"
<DT><B>\-U, --numa</B>
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# cyclictest --help | grep "\-\-numa"
-U       --numa            Standard NUMA testing (similar to SMP option)
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# zcat /usr/share/man/man8/cyclictest.8.gz | man2html | grep "\-\-secali"
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# cyclictest --help | grep "\-\-secali"
         --secaligned [USEC] align thread wakeups to the next full second,
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# zcat /usr/share/man/man8/hwlatdetect.8.gz| man2html | grep "\-\-watch"
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]# hwlatdetect --help | grep "\-\-watch"
  --watch               print sample data to stdout as it arrives
[root@dell-per815-02 ~]#

Comment 4 John Kacur 2016-04-25 14:22:28 UTC
Created attachment 1150522 [details]
Update the cyclictest man page

I just sent this patch upstream

Comment 5 John Kacur 2016-04-25 16:47:42 UTC
Created attachment 1150556 [details]
rt-tests-Update-the-cyclictest-man-page.patch

Here's an updated version of the patch with some spell fixes and and ack from Clark

Comment 6 John Kacur 2016-05-20 12:19:53 UTC
Created attachment 1159892 [details]
Add missing option to hwlatdetect man-page

Comment 7 John Kacur 2016-05-20 12:48:28 UTC
Fixed in
rt-tests-1.0-1.el7rt-tests-1.0-1.el7
and up

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 05:13:59 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2391.html