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| author | Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@devzen.ru> | 2016-08-18 12:36:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> | 2016-09-20 08:58:27 -0600 |
| commit | 3409f9ab71d7db96eed849f49a6c8116c62dc251 (patch) | |
| tree | 298f9cc9f290f13d14d18b0298cff30817445886 /Documentation/kselftest.txt | |
| parent | 29b4817d4018df78086157ea3a55c1d9424a7cfc (diff) | |
kselftest: kselftest documentation improvement
Suggested patch solves two issues:
1) Currently documentation is unclear whether `make kselftest` should
be run before or after kernel was installed and booted. `make help`
gives a clear answer on that: "kselftest - Build and run kernel selftest
(run as root). Build, install, and boot kernel before running kselftest
on it."
2) Documentation states that `make kselftest` executes "unit" tests.
Technically it's not a _unit_ test if it requires to install an
application first. It's either integration or system test. To not to
confuse a user I suggest not to use a word "unit".
Signed-off-by: Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@devzen.ru>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kselftest.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kselftest.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kselftest.txt b/Documentation/kselftest.txt index 979eacae243d..54bee77fa728 100644 --- a/Documentation/kselftest.txt +++ b/Documentation/kselftest.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ 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. +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. 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 |