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| author | Milosz Wasilewski <milosz.wasilewski@hackbox.linaro.org> | 2014-12-13 23:01:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Milosz Wasilewski <milosz.wasilewski@hackbox.linaro.org> | 2014-12-13 23:01:22 +0000 |
| commit | 2049c9e9091f707ab52cb3281e5e978e24584f26 (patch) | |
| tree | 686ba0168ba793b0da1f7e78c8e620940e08e1af /README.txt | |
| parent | ee83914ac12d243b45bd70572e4acb4d89af8efd (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2660d5f..0000000 --- a/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. |