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author | Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> | 2011-08-28 17:52:14 +0200 |
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committer | Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> | 2011-09-20 20:17:44 +0200 |
commit | 08aab447c56a5388cf0c768da476ad022f00fef8 (patch) | |
tree | 9760a037d3ac283b9985c03479b170c386920434 /arch/arm/kernel | |
parent | ARM: kprobes: Add some benchmarking to test module (diff) | |
download | linux-08aab447c56a5388cf0c768da476ad022f00fef8.tar.xz linux-08aab447c56a5388cf0c768da476ad022f00fef8.zip |
ARM: kprobes: Add introductory comment to test code
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c index e5740c7c64e5..e17cdd6d90d8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c @@ -9,6 +9,27 @@ */ /* + * This file contains test code for ARM kprobes. + * + * The top level function run_all_tests() executes tests for all of the + * supported instruction sets: ARM, 16-bit Thumb, and 32-bit Thumb. These tests + * fall into two categories; run_api_tests() checks basic functionality of the + * kprobes API, and run_test_cases() is a comprehensive test for kprobes + * instruction decoding and simulation. + * + * run_test_cases() first checks the kprobes decoding table for self consistency + * (using table_test()) then executes a series of test cases for each of the CPU + * instruction forms. coverage_start() and coverage_end() are used to verify + * that these test cases cover all of the possible combinations of instructions + * described by the kprobes decoding tables. + * + * The individual test cases are in kprobes-test-arm.c and kprobes-test-thumb.c + * which use the macros defined in kprobes-test.h. The rest of this + * documentation will describe the operation of the framework used by these + * test cases. + */ + +/* * TESTING METHODOLOGY * ------------------- * |