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Paul E. McKenney 2bcdf4e31a rcutorture: Eliminate --rcu-kvm argument

The --rcu-kvm argument was intended to allow the scripts to live in
an alternate location.  Unfortunately, this prevents the kvm.sh script
from using common functions until after it finished parsing arguments,
because it doesn't know where to find them until then.  However, "cp -a"
and "ln -s" work pretty well, so lack of an --rcu-kvm argument can be
easily worked around.

This commit therefore removes this argument.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2013-12-03 10:11:14 -08:00

breakpoints

breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-17 17:15:27 -08:00

cpu-hotplug

tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts

2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00

efivarfs

efivars: efivarfs_valid_name() should handle pstore syntax

2013-03-06 14:46:04 +00:00

ipc

selftests: IPC message queue copy feature test

2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00

kcmp

selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp

2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00

memory-hotplug

tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts

2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00

mqueue

mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error

2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00

net

tools: selftests: psock_tpacket: get rid of macro wrappers

2013-07-02 00:23:57 -07:00

powerpc

selftests: Add test of PMU instruction counting on powerpc

2013-08-14 14:57:10 +10:00

ptrace

selftest: add a test case for PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO

2013-04-30 17:04:05 -07:00

rcutorture

rcutorture: Eliminate --rcu-kvm argument

2013-12-03 10:11:14 -08:00

timers

tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable

2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00

selftests: add .gitignore for vm

2013-07-03 16:08:07 -07:00

Makefile

selftests: Add infrastructure for powerpc selftests

2013-08-14 14:57:03 +10:00

README.txt

selftests: add a simple doc

2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00

README.txt

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.

Running the selftests
=====================

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 targetted for a single subsystem:

  $  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.


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.