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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph - Various build-script fixes - A new document on memory models - RST conversion of the live-patching docs - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits) docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo` scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs docs/vm: add documentation of memory models doc:it_IT: translation alignment doc: fix typo in PGP guide dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index c8c03388b9de..25604904fa6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code
paths in the kernel. Tests are intended to be run after building, installing
and booting a kernel.
+You can find additional information on Kselftest framework, how to
+write new tests using the framework on Kselftest wiki:
+
+https://kselftest.wiki.kernel.org/
+
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 the full range of hot-plug tests. In default mode, hot-plug tests run
@@ -35,17 +40,32 @@ To build and run the tests with a single command, use::
Note that some tests will require root privileges.
-Build and run from user specific object directory (make O=dir)::
+Kselftest supports saving output files in a separate directory and then
+running tests. To locate output files in a separate directory two syntaxes
+are supported. In both cases the working directory must be the root of the
+kernel src. This is applicable to "Running a subset of selftests" section
+below.
+
+To build, save output files in a separate directory with O= ::
$ make O=/tmp/kselftest kselftest
-Build and run KBUILD_OUTPUT directory (make KBUILD_OUTPUT=)::
+To build, save output files in a separate directory with KBUILD_OUTPUT ::
+
+ $ export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest; make kselftest
- $ make KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest kselftest
+The O= assignment takes precedence over the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
+variable.
-The above commands run the tests and print pass/fail summary to make it
-easier to understand the test results. Please find the detailed individual
-test results for each test in /tmp/testname file(s).
+The above commands by default run the tests and print full pass/fail report.
+Kselftest supports "summary" option to make it easier to understand the test
+results. Please find the detailed individual test results for each test in
+/tmp/testname file(s) when summary option is specified. This is applicable
+to "Running a subset of selftests" section below.
+
+To run kselftest with summary option enabled ::
+
+ $ make summary=1 kselftest
Running a subset of selftests
=============================
@@ -61,17 +81,13 @@ You can specify multiple tests to build and run::
$ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
-Build and run from user specific object directory (make O=dir)::
+To build, save output files in a separate directory with O= ::
$ make O=/tmp/kselftest TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
-Build and run KBUILD_OUTPUT directory (make KBUILD_OUTPUT=)::
-
- $ make KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
+To build, save output files in a separate directory with KBUILD_OUTPUT ::
-The above commands run the tests and print pass/fail summary to make it
-easier to understand the test results. Please find the detailed individual
-test results for each test in /tmp/testname file(s).
+ $ export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest; make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all
possible targets.