As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how
one is supposed to build selftests:
make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm
However, that's not yet documented anywhere. So add it to
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst .
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index 12b575b76b20..6e35d042199c 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
To build the tests::
+ $ make headers
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests
To run the tests::
--
2.40.1
