linux/tools/testing/selftests
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
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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
vm 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

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.