oetest.py: Don't wait to write dump files

This allows to write the dump files immediately
after get the data from the target. Before this,
it would run all the commands and write the files.
The old behavior could cause no log written at all
if the serial console gets stuck.

Signed-off-by: Mariano Lopez <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/oetest.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/oetest.py
index a3f297acf6..dfed3dea87 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/oetest.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/oetest.py
@@ -122,21 +122,18 @@ class oeRuntimeTest(oeTest):
         # If a test fails or there is an exception
         if (self._resultForDoCleanups.failures or
                 self._resultForDoCleanups.errors):
-            commands = ["top -bn1", "ps", "free", "df", "_ping", "dmesg", "netstat -a", "ifconfig -a", "_logs"]
-            dump_dir = "/tmp/oe-saved-tests"
-            dump_dir = os.path.join(dump_dir,
-                    datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M'))
-            os.makedirs(dump_dir)
-            bb.warn("Test failed, getting data from target "
-                    "and saving it in %s" % dump_dir)
-            output = self.run_bulk_commands(commands)
-            for key,msg in output.iteritems():
-                filename = key.split()[0]
-                with open(os.path.join(dump_dir, filename), 'w') as f:
-                    f.write(msg)
-
-    def run_bulk_commands(self, commands):
-        all_output = {}
+            self.dump_target_logs()
+
+    def dump_target_logs(self):
+        commands = ["top -bn1", "ps", "free", "df", "_ping", "dmesg", "netstat -a", "ifconfig -a", "_logs"]
+        dump_dir = "/tmp/oe-saved-tests"
+        dump_sub_dir = ("%s_%s" % (
+                datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M'),
+                self._testMethodName))
+        dump_dir = os.path.join(dump_dir, dump_sub_dir)
+        os.makedirs(dump_dir)
+        bb.warn("%s failed: getting data from target and "
+                "saving into %s" % (self._testMethodName, dump_dir))
         for command in commands:
             # This will ping the host from target
             if command == "_ping":
@@ -151,8 +148,9 @@ class oeRuntimeTest(oeTest):
             else:
                 comm = command 
             (status, output) = self.target.run_serial(comm)
-            all_output[command] = output
-        return all_output
+            filename = command.split()[0]
+            with open(os.path.join(dump_dir, filename), 'w') as f:
+                f.write(output)
 
     #TODO: use package_manager.py to install packages on any type of image
     def install_packages(self, packagelist):