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| author | Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com> | 2014-11-20 01:16:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2014-11-24 18:49:54 +0100 |
| commit | 3c415707b37f1e4483c418c77f57692b89bcfd5e (patch) | |
| tree | 12cc44c1f3cadcf696e0d4450b9ae82617a89798 /tools/testing | |
| parent | CodingStyle: Add a chapter on conditional compilation (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c415707b37f1e4483c418c77f57692b89bcfd5e.tar.xz linux-3c415707b37f1e4483c418c77f57692b89bcfd5e.zip | |
kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir
Also, adjust the formatting a bit, and expand the section about using
TARGETS= on the make command line.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/testing/selftests/README.txt | 61 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 61 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt b/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2660d5ff9179..000000000000 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ -Linux Kernel Selftests - -The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ -directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual -code paths in the kernel. - -On some systems, hot-plug tests could hang forever waiting for cpu and -memory to be ready to be offlined. A special hot-plug target is created -to run full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run -in safe mode with a limited scope. In limited mode, cpu-hotplug test is -run on a single cpu as opposed to all hotplug capable cpus, and memory -hotplug test is run on 2% of hotplug capable memory instead of 10%. - -Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode) -============================================================= - -To build the tests: - - $ make -C tools/testing/selftests - - -To run the tests: - - $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests - -- note that some tests will require root privileges. - -To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem: (including -hotplug targets in limited mode) - - $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=cpu-hotplug run_tests - -See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all possible -targets. - -Running the full range hotplug selftests -======================================== - -To build the tests: - - $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug - -To run the tests: - - $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug - -- note that some tests will require root privileges. - -Contributing new tests -====================== - -In general, the rules for for selftests are - - * Do as much as you can if you're not root; - - * Don't take too long; - - * Don't break the build on any architecture, and - - * Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is - unconfigured. |