Commit ad659ccb5412 ("kunit: tool: Default --jobs to number of CPUs")
changed the --jobs flag from a hard-coded value of 8 to basically
`nproc`.
Therefore, most users should probably not need to bother to tweak this
flag. Having it near the top of the page is more noise than anything.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst
index 653985ce9cae..1fccf2e099f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/run_wrapper.rst
@@ -30,10 +30,9 @@ We may want to use the following options:
.. code-block::
- ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --timeout=30 --jobs=`nproc --all
+ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --timeout=30
- ``--timeout`` sets a maximum amount of time for tests to run.
-- ``--jobs`` sets the number of threads to build the kernel.
kunit_tool will generate a ``.kunitconfig`` with a default
configuration, if no other ``.kunitconfig`` file exists
@@ -237,6 +236,9 @@ command line arguments:
compiling a kernel (using ``build`` or ``run`` commands). For example:
to enable compiler warnings, we can pass ``--make_options W=1``.
+- ``--jobs``: The ``-j`` argument to ``make`` when building the kernel.
+ Defaults to the same value as ``nproc``.
+
- ``--alltests``: Builds a UML kernel with all config options enabled
using ``make allyesconfig``. This allows us to run as many tests as
possible.
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