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Commit 3c415707 authored by Tim Bird's avatar Tim Bird Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarTim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com>
Acked-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 21228a18

tools/testing/selftests/README.txt→Documentation/kselftest.txt

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To build the tests:



  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests





To run the tests:



  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests



To build and run the tests with a single command, use:

  $ make kselftest



- 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

Running a subset of selftests

========================================

You can use the "TARGETS" variable on the make command line to specify

single test to run, or a list of tests to run.



To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem:

  $  make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests



You can specify multiple tests to build and run:

  $  make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest



See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all

possible targets.



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:



To build the hotplug tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug



To run the tests:



To run the hotplug tests:

  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug



- note that some tests will require root privileges.





Contributing new tests

======================