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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. |
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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) ============================================================= |
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To build the tests: |
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$ make -C tools/testing/selftests To run the tests: |
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$ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests |
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To build and run the tests with a single command, use: $ make kselftest |
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- note that some tests will require root privileges. |
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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. |
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Running the full range hotplug selftests ======================================== |
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To build the hotplug tests: |
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$ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug |
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To run the hotplug tests: |
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$ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug - note that some tests will require root privileges. |
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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. |